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ROBERT GARRY 



ROBERT GARRY 

"THE MAN OF ONE BOOK" 
"Who went about doing good" 



SKILLED MECHANIC 

BRAVE SOLDIER 

FAITHFUL DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST 

SKILFUL AND SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL WORKER 



A MEMORIAL OF A RARE LIFE 



By 
S. M. SAYFORD 



Published for the author by 

ASSOCIATION PRESS 

Nbw York: 347 Madison Avenue 
1918 



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Copyright, 1918, by 
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To 
MRS. ELLA L. GARRY 
Who by Her Sacrifice op Companionship 
with Her Husband Made it Possible for 
Him to Devote Himself to the Interests 
of Christ's Kingdom for Forty-two Years 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER I 

PAGE 

A Sketch of His Early Life 1 

CHAPTER II 

Our First Meeting and Work Together 
in Lockport 7 

chapter m 
His Development in the Study of the 
Bible and the Use He Made of It 21 

CHAPTER IV 

His Qualities 35 

chapter v 
Some of His Qualities Exhibited in 
Personal Letters 43 

chapter VI 
Together in Nestlewood 51 

chapter vii 
Last Days and Home Going 60 

chapter viii 
Other Tributes 68 

appendix 
Some of His Bible Readings 79 



PREFACE 

Recently there died of pneumonia two sol- 
diers in service. One of these was a line offi- 
cer of distinction, well born and well bred, a 
politician well up the ladder of national life, 
much talked about, a member of several clubs, 
comparatively young. He was wealthy and 
left a fairly large fortune to his family. 

The other was an old soldier, who had 
served with distinction in the Civil War, and 
at the time of his death was engaged in the 
Young Men's Christian Association War 
Work, in Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, 
South Carolina. He was born of poor parents, 
reared amidst poverty, inured to hardships, 
and lived a comparatively obscure life. He 
was never in the "limelight," but spent and 
ended his days in the "light of the knowledge 
of the glory of God." Of this old soldier I 
am asked to write a memorial. 

Although I have always dreaded the task 
of making a book, I attempt this one with 
pleasure because of my love for the man; be- 
cause I knew him so long and so intimately; 
and because I am persuaded that a sketch of 

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the rare life of Robert Garry will quicken 
interest in the Book which he loved so ardently 
and studied so diligently. And I cherish the 
hope that it may deepen desire in many a life 
to do personal Christian work, which was a 
passion with my friend. 

S. M. S. 
Newton, Mass. 






Chapter I 
A SKETCH OF HIS EARLY LIFE 

The parents of Robert Garry were born in 
Ireland and came to Canada in the early 
forties of the last century. 

Robert was born at McCaskills Mills, Can- 
ada, November 20, 1844. The family came to 
the States in 1848, stopping for a brief time 
in Lewiston, N. Y., and then moving to Lock- 
port, N. Y. There they lived until 1851, when 
they settled in the nearby town of Medina, 
Here young Garry spent his boyhood days. 
In 1856 his father died and Robert was obliged 
to help support the family. He had carried 
drills in a stone quarry when he was only ten 
years old, for which laborious work he re- 
ceived thirty-one cents per day. A few weeks 
after the death of his father, the boy began to 
sell fruit and candy at the railroad station in 
Medina and on trains running to and from 
that station. 

For two winters, he spent about two hours 
a day in school, and with this scanty equip- 
ment he was obliged to begin his life struggle. 

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2 ROBERT GARRY 

In 1859, he secured a job firing a boiler in a 
stave factory, at which he remained until the 
breaking out of the Civil War. Two of his 
older brothers enlisted ; and Robert, fired with 
patriotic enthusiasm, made three attempts to 
follow them, but each time was returned to 
his home, from which he had gone without the 
consent of his mother. He was reared in the 
Roman Catholic Church, and it was through 
the efforts of the priest that he was appre- 
hended and brought back. Not daunted by his 
repeated failures and arrests, with that in- 
trepidity which was his prominent character- 
istic in after years, he made another and this 
time successful attempt. Stealing away from 
home at night and boarding a train for Ro- 
chester, about forty miles distant, he very 
soon presented himself at the recruiting sta- 
tion in that city for enlistment. Passing a 
good physical examination, and being of fit 
age, according to his own statement — although 
he was only seventeen — he was accepted, mus- 
tered into service October 15, 1861, assigned 
to Company F, Third New York Cavalry, and 
sent at once, via Washington, to the Army of 
the Potomac. He participated in many bat- 
tles, and with his regiment was transferred to 
North Carolina, where he served under Gen- 
eral Burnside in all of his engagements up to 



SKETCH OF HIS EARLY LIFE 3 

the retreat from Tarboro. Here Eobert was 
taken seriously ill and sent to the hospital, in 
which he remained for three weeks, when he 
was discharged for physical disability and 
returned to his home. 

Having recovered sufficiently within a 
month, he recruited the required number of 
men and was appointed First Lieutenant in 
the Ninetieth New York Regiment Volunteer 
Infantry and was assigned to duty in the 
Shenandoah Valley, where he served under 
General Phil Sheridan until the close of the 
war. He was discharged at Washington June 
3rd, 1865, and mustered out June 9th, at 
Rochester, N. Y., the city in which he had 
enlisted four years previously. 

Within sixty days after his return from the 
war he entered a machine shop at Medina to 
learn the trade of a machinist. A year later 
he went to the Holly Manufacturing Com- 
pany, in Lockport, where he rendered most 
faithful and efficient service for thirty-five 
years, twenty-five of which he was one of the 
foremen, with thirty or more men under him, 
for whose work he was responsible. 

In due time, Robert married and established 
a home of his own. There was no "discipline 
of the strap" in his family. The two children 
were molded by love and example. The father, 



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by reason of his daily toil and the Christian 
work to which he devoted his evenings, was 
at home but little of the time. Mrs. Garry 
was a model mother, as she was a model wife. 
She lived and sacrificed for her dear ones. I 
have a fancy if she knew I was saying this 
she would ask to have it omitted, or at least 
to omit the word sacrifice. Doing was a joy 
with her ; first in her home, and then for others 
outside. She did everything possible to make 
it easy for her husband to respond to the con- 
stantly increasing calls for his Christian serv- 
ice. Of the two children, Hopestill — a charm- 
ing girl — lived into young womanhood, and 
then went to be with her Lord, Whom she 
had found joy in serving even when in her 
teens. The son did more or less Y. M. C. A. 
work in Lockport and in Buffalo, and finally 
went West, where he now has a home of his 
own and is connected with a railroad com- 
pany. The home life of this plain family was 
ideal. The evenings, when they were all to- 
gether, were most enjoyable; Hopestill at the 
piano and her father with his harmonica, or 
mouth-organ, with gospel hymns and popular 
songs gave variety to the entertainment. Each 
entered into the pleasure of the others and 
thus made an interesting and happy family. 
Some time after Robert's conversion, his 






SKETCH OF HIS EARLY LIFE 5 

mother, a devout Roman Catholic, eame to 
visit in her son's family. He was much con- 
cerned for her conversion, and one evening he 
prevailed on her to tarry with them for their 
evening devotions. By design he selected and 
read the eighth chapter of Matthew's Gospel. 
As he read the fourteenth verse, "And when 
Jesus was come into Peter's house he saw his 
wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever," 
Robert's mother exclaimed, "Stop, Son. Was 
Peter a married man?" "Of course," replied 
her son, "that's what it reads." With some 
excitement she said it was not so in her Bible, 
when Robert replied, "Yes, it is, Mother. 
Bring your Bible." And when she brought 
it and her son showed her the verse and re- 
minded her that the only difference was that 
in her book it read, "He saw his mother-in-law 
lying, and sick with a fever," she exclaimed, 
"Well, I always thought that popes and priests 
were not allowed to marry." It proved the 
entering wedge, and in a short time my friend 
had the satisfaction of bringing his mother 
into the faith which was his joy, and in which 
she lived and died. Nor was she the only 
member of the family whom Robert brought 
to see Jesus as he saw and knew Him. 
Neither were his efforts confined to Roman 
Catholics of his own family. He won several 



6 ROBERT GARRY 

from among his fellow-workmen in the shop, 
and finally made a Bible reading for x Cath- 
olics which has had large circulation and has 
been translated into at least one other lan- 
guage. From among his shopmates whom he 
led to Christ five became preachers of the 
Gospel. 

Robert's absorption in Christian work was 
the cause, doubtless, of his absent-mindedness. 
Upon one occasion he took his little daughter 
to the center of the town where he had a bit 
of business to transact, and, being called to 
the other side of the street, bade the child to 
wait by the lamp post until he returned. In 
the course of an hour he reached his home, 
when his wife said, "Why, Robert, where is 
Hopestill?" and he replied, "My! I left the 
little tot standing down town to wait until 
I'd come for her." He hurried back, and sure 
enough, the little girl, in obedience to her 
father's instructions, was waiting for his re- 
turn. 



a This reading, with others, may be found in the ap- 
pendix. 



Chapter II 

OUR FIRST MEETING AND WORK 
TOGETHER IN LOCKPORT 

We first met on life's pathway in Lockport, 
N. Y., in the early part of 1876. I was 
specializing in temperance work among chil- 
dren; and through it I came in close touch 
with the Young Men's Christian Association, 
and was chosen later by its directors as Gen- 
eral Secretary. 

Robert Garry was a skilled mechanic in the 
employ of the Holly Manufacturing Company. 
He had been converted three or four years 
previously and was eager to do Christian work. 
He was one of the trophies of God's grace in 
a series of evangelistic meetings conducted 
by my old friend, George C. Needham. 
Robert's coming out from Roman Catholicism 
created somewhat of a sensation among his 
Catholic friends and brought him to the special 
attention of the more aggressive Protestants. 
His first testimony in a public religious meet- 
ing gave evidence of the light which had 

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broken in upon his heart and conscience, and 
marked him at once as a man to be counted 
on for the things of the Kingdom. With 
exuberant joy the young convert exclaimed, 
"I am one of the happiest men in the world, 
for I have found the great High Priest and 
need no longer make confession to a priest of 
the church." 

He united with the First Congregational 
Church, of Lockport, of which the late Rev. 
James W. Cooper, D.D., was pastor. He be- 
came deeply interested in the young man, and 
found him a jewel which to help polish became 
Mr. Cooper's great joy. Robert grew "in 
grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus 
Christ" to such an extent that his pastor, when 
he accepted a call to the South Congregational 
Church, in New Britain, Conn., tried to per- 
suade the young man to go with him, that he 
might have his help in the new field. 

The present pastor of the Lockport church 
writes, in answer to inquiries I made of him : 

"Yes, our good saint, Robert Garry, is gone to his 
reward. The records of this church show that he 
united on confession of faith May 4, 1873. During 
the interim of my pastorates here, I understand that 
he seldom attended the services, but he was out of 
the city much of the time in evangelistic work. 

He was never formally dismissed from our mem- 
bership, and his name was on our list when he died, 
as an absent member. He was one of the saints of 



OUR FIRST WORK TOGETHER 9 

the earth. He often spoke of you in our conversa- 
tions." 

He and I were about the same age; we had 
been soldiers on the same side in the Civil 
War; we had been interested in Masonry; we 
were "babes in Christ/' and thus found much 
in common upon which to build a friendship 
which brightened and deepened with the speed- 
ing years, and was only interrupted forty-two 
years later when Robert was "called up 
higher." There is much satisfaction in the 
thought that such separation is simply an in- 
terruption of fellowship, to be resumed in that 
"land that is fairer than day." 

"All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends ; 
And many friendships in the days of time 
Begun, are lasting here, and growing still." 

The enthusiasm with which Robert em- 
braced opportunity for Christian service; his 
eagerness to know and use the Bible; his 
humility and simple childlike faith; his bold- 
ness and fearlessness won for him a place in 
the working force of the Association, and gave 
to the organization one of its best personal 
workers. 

In those days, the efforts of the Young 
Men's Christian Association were not con- 
fined to men alone, but such work as it did 



10 ROBERT GARRY 

was more distinctively religious than now, and 
that prosecuted by the Lockport Association 
was almost exclusively of this nature. Its 
meetings were open to men and women and 
were generally evangelistic in character, with 
opportunity given for a public acceptance of 
Jesus Christ as Saviour. 

In the fall of 1876, owing to much suffering 
among the needy poor of the city, the Asso- 
ciation assumed responsibility for the dis- 
pensing of charity. In this new departure, 
Robert Garry rendered most valuable assist- 
ance. Continuing his work in the shop by 
day, he gave his evenings gladly, and without 
financial compensation, to this form of philan- 
thropy. Night after night he and I visited the 
homes where poverty was pinching, and in 
addition to temporal assistance rendered we 
offered spiritual advice and consolation. 

An extraordinary and startling incident 
was part of our experience in this new minis- 
try. With several friends we had conducted 
an evening meeting in a nearby town, where 
we were compelled to spend the night, owing 
to a raging snowstorm. The next morning, 
being driven in a large pung over unbroken 
roads, we came within a mile or so of Lock- 
port where we stopped to rest the horses. I 
asked our host and the other members of the 



OUR FIRST WORK TOGETHER 11 

party if they would wait long enough for 
Robert and me to make a call on one of our 
parishioners who lived within a stone's throw. 
Getting their consent, he and I plunged into 
the snowdrifts and made our way to a tumble- 
down shanty, in which an unusual sight 
greeted us. A man, recently converted in one 
of our meetings, a woman, and a little babe 
were occupying a room, in which they ate and 
slept and existed. In an attempt to keep the 
driving snow from sifting through about the 
windows, they had stuffed rags and paper in 
the crevices; and about the bed in which the 
little child was sleeping, they had suspended 
old pieces of carpet to keep out the storm. 
The three were living amidst squalor ; and 
yet there were fading evidences of refinement 
about the woman. She was combing a head of 
luxuriant hair; a Bible lay open on a box 
which was used for a table. The man, who 
admitted us, said, with tears trickling over his 
sin-scarred cheeks, "God must have sent you 
to us. We have a confession to make, and 
were wishing the two of us could meet you 
men together." Hesitating for only a minute 
or so, he continued, "The little one there," 
pointing to the sleeping babe on the bed, "is 
our child, but we are not married. What shall 
we do?" I said, "Oh, we can fix that, if you 



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desire. There is a minister in the sled out 
there whom we can call, and he will marry 
you with Mr. Garry and me as witnesses." 
"Ah," said the poor fellow, "if only we could. 
She is the only woman I love in this world, 
but I have two wives in Lockport. My first 
one married another man and lives with him; 
the other is living in a house of shame in 
town." I said, "Well, my dear man, you are 
guilty of a crime and must confess it and suf- 
fer punishment to make things right." His 
immediate reply was, "I am willing to go to 
prison or suffer any other penalty to clear this 
awful matter up." The woman was crying, but 
looked up through her tears, and said, "Yes, 
and so am I. If someone will take care of 
the baby, they may put us in prison, and when 
we have satisfied the law we will marry and 
live a straight life. I have seen better days; 
drink was my ruin, but I know there is hope 
for such sinners even as we are." Making 
note of food and fuel, of which they were in 
need, we returned to the pung and continued 
our ride home. 

As early after our return as possible, we 
made an appointment with a lawyer concern- 
ing the unfortunate condition we had just 
discovered. After hearing our statement, he 
said, "Well, this is a tangled skein; it will 



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take considerable time and more or less money 
to carry it to court, and under the circum- 
stances it is hardly worth the while. Take 
the money you would spend in trying to un- 
ravel the tangle and get the couple, with their 
child, away from here. Send them to some 
city where they are not known, and where they 
may marry and begin life anew." Whether 
this was the best advice or not, they left Lock- 
port, settled in a city not far away, were mar- 
ried at once, and with the money we gave them 
he started in peddling tin-ware. They were 
kept under observation for some time and 
found to be doing well in every respect. 

In December, 1876, the Y. M. C. A. in Lock- 
port inaugurated noonday prayer-meetings. 
Of the few persons who attended, none came 
more regularly than Robert Garry. His pray- 
ers and his testimonies were always brief, 
and to the point, and interwoven with texts 
of Scripture: they bore evidence of being 
prompted and indited by the Holy Spirit. 
These meetings grew in power and in popu- 
larity, so that we were soon obliged to seek a 
larger room to accommodate the people. The 
members of the Lutheran Church, only a short 
distance from the Association rooms, kindly 
proffered their house of worship, which was 
accepted. Meetings were held in the evenings 



14 ROBERT GARRY 

as well as at noon, and within a little while 
we found that we were in the midst of a most 
gracious revival. The pastors of several of 
the churches united with the Association, and 
in a short time it became again necessary to 
seek larger quarters. These were found 
through the courtesy of the Methodist Church, 
where special meetings had been in progress 
since the beginning of the "Week of Prayer." 
By the concerted and unanimous action of the 
churches, now united in this movement, the 
Rev. George Mingins, of New York City, was 
invited to assume charge of the services. Still 
another enforced change of place, and the 
large Presbyterian Church was found none 
too large to accommodate the throngs that 
were now attending the meetings. My friend 
Robert was much in evidence throughout the 
campaign, and was soon recognized as one of 
the most efficient helpers. How many indi- 
viduals he brought into personal touch with 
Christ through his open Bible will never be 
known. There were over three hundred con- 
versions among the results of this series of 
meetings, the influence of which was felt 
throughout Niagara County. 

The Young Men's Christian Association 
was now in the forefront of the city's religious 
life. Representatives of churches and Sunday 



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schools came to it for helpers, and among 
these no one responded more promptly or with 
greater joy than did the subject of this me- 
morial. Among the applicants was a woman 
from the "Crocker District," where revival 
meetings were desired, and where some one 
was especially needed to lead in the Sunday 
school. This district was a farming com- 
munity just a few miles from the city. When 
Robert was suggested, the woman expressed 
astonishment, and said, "What! that Irish- 
man?" "Yes," replied the writer, "I know of 
no one more apparently filled with, and led 
by, the Holy Spirit than he. He knows the 
Bible as few men know it, and I feel reason- 
ably sure that you will make no mistake if his 
services can be secured." After some hesita- 
tion she was persuaded to act upon the sug- 
gestion, the result of which was that he here 
began his first public work. An interest was 
kindled in the community attracting wide at- 
tention. Ministers and others from Lockport 
assisted, and great joy was among the people. 
Twenty or more "family altars" were estab- 
lished in as many homes through the faithful 
use the young evangelist made of his Bible, 
and through his unassuming manner in doing 
personal work. He so endeared himself to all 
the people that he was persuaded to remain 



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as their spiritual leader. He continued with 
them for several years, and left finally because 
of the demands for his Bible teaching from 
Rochester and Buffalo and the towns lying 
between these two cities. 

Very soon calls for his services came from 
distant places, and so urgent were many of 
these that he withdrew from the Holly Manu- 
facturing Company to devote his time without 
business interruption to religious work. From 
this time on, he was almost continuously en- 
gaged in Bible teaching and personal work, 
traveling through much of our country be- 
tween Maine and Minnesota. The International 
Committee of Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciations occasionally employed him for Bible 
work among railroad men and in industrial 
plants, in which he achieved distinction and 
won the hearts of thousands of the "dear 
boys," as he called them. 

There came under my eye the following con- 
cerning his labors in the Railroad Y. M. C. A. 
at Peoria, 111., in 1906 : 

"From December 10-22, 1905, Kobert Garry con- 
ducted a series of 14 evangelistic meetings. Also a 
series of Noon Shop Bible Classes at Union Freight 
House, another at P. & P. IT. Car Shop, and another 
at T. P. & W. Car Shop, a total of 26 meetings and 
Bible classes. The total attendance was 979. 

The results are 78 decisions secured by personal 



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effort most largely by Mr. Garry before and after the 
meetings. Each of these, after his decision, signed 
a card pledging himself to Christ and giving his ad- 
dress. 

Decisions were secured in reading room, dining 
room, wash room, on street, in bed rooms, shops, cars, 
baggage room, anywhere an opportunity offered. 
Since October 1, 1900, these meetings and classes 
have been persisted in faithfully, in building and 
shops, with the result that, as Mr. Garry is pleased 
to state it, 'The men show a remarkable attitude 
toward, and interest in, the gospel message, mani- 
fested in their acceptance of Christ, their readiness 
to hear the message, and to endure discomfort that 
they might hear, as was the case in the cold and 
open, unheated freight house, where speaker and 
singers were obliged to be heavily coated and muffled 
to escape the cold/ A card record of these decisions 
and a definite follow-up system is contemplated, also 
a correspondence Bible class with these decisions as 
its nucleus." 

The great amount of personal work he did 
during the "Billy" Sunday meetings in Buffalo 
is referred to by Mrs. Abigail Luffe in a letter 
to Mrs. C. K. Fitch, of Passaic, N. J. : 

"I wish you could have been with us at the 'Billy* 
Sunday meetings in Buffalo; to see 'Billy V — No. 
To see souls saved every afternoon and evening. I 
missed only three meetings to which women were 
admitted, so am in a position to know a little as to 
what really took place. 

There were some very earnest Christian workers, 
among whom our dear Brother Garry stands out in 
bold relief. Shall I ever forget the joy with which 



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we met in that great campaign? Work! I never 
saw a man more untiring in leading souls to Christ. 
Once I begged him to rest at least between meetings. 
His answer was, 'No, no, the time is very short. God 
has sent Mr. Sunday to wake up the great mass of 
people to get them interested, but to you and me 
He has given the work to drive the message home, 
and whoever has a heart to work now has the oppor- 
tunity that may never be given again/ 

One day I said to him, 'Do you never eat?* He 
replied that he had eaten in the morning and would 
take a little more before he went to bed. 'But look 
at all these people/ he said, and off he went again 
first to one group and then another, and in a very 
few minutes you would see his much-loved Bible held 
so that the ones he was talking to could read. Some 
he would plead with to come to the Saviour, and he 
did it in such a way that none took offense, yet he 
gave a full Gospel. Often I followed him from group 
to group of Christians, and again out came the Book 
so dear to his heart, and he would say, 'Oh, have you 
ever noticed thus and so? ? and soon room would be 
made for him to sit among them, and then would 
follow a precious time over the Word. 

I should say that he never lost one moment through 
that two months' campaign (two or three times he 
was away because he did not feel well). 

There was an understanding between us that if 
I needed help with men or he with women we would 
send for each other, which we did a number of times. 
He was always ready, always on the alert. It was a 
grand sight to see the dear man taking up one, two, 
or three persons together three and four times at one 
meeting ; his own face a picture to see ; and we know 
he had been fully satisfied before he would take them 
up. Often have I heard him say, 'Shaking hands 
with Billy will do you no good unless it is an open 



OUR FIRST WORK TOGETHER 19 

confession of a real birth through faith in Jesus 
Christ/ 

As he saw the great place filled to overflowing, he 
would say, with beaming face, 'This is grand ; do not 
fail to pray; we must have the power of the Holy 
Spirit if any lasting good is to result. Pray, Sister, 
pray; there are some who must be saved tonight. 
The bait has taken well tonight/ 

Once again I begged him to rest. I knew he was 
not well ; but he said, 'Don't tell anyone that. Jesus 
is coming soon; but if it please God to take me by 
way of death I only ask that it may come when I am 
at His work. Oh, I love, I love my Master, He has 
done so much for me/ 

Talking of results one day, he said, 'I believe God 
has given me 350 souls in this place. Many more 
have told me they are saved, but 350, I believe, are 
really born again. Still, God knows the hearts of 
all. This is grand! What must it be to be there! 
We give the Word; life is His only/ " 

Many similar testimonies concerning the 
labors of this indefatigable disciple of Jesus 
could be secured and printed were it less diffi- 
cult to obtain them, and were less time neces- 
sary to complete the inquiries. Many secre- 
taries of Y. M. C. A/s and ministers with 
whom he labored have either passed away or 
are in the service of their country. 

His greatest public work was doubtless 
among railroad men and mechanics. Thou- 
sands of these have been led to Christ and in- 
structed in His teachings by this mechanic- 
evangelist. His meat and drink was to do 



20 ROBERT GARRY 

what he conceived to be the will of God con- 
cerning his responsibility for the souls of men. 
The only evidence of impatience I ever dis- 
covered in my friend was when too long an 
interim came between his engagements. 



Chapter III 

HIS DEVELOPMENT IN THE STUDY OP 

THE BIBLE AND THE USE HE 

MADE OF IT 

In the early days of our acquaintance, 
Robert asked me if I would show him how 
to study the Bible. He had come to recognize 
his need of a knowledge of the Book, but had 
not the slightest idea as to how he might study 
it to the best advantage without college train- 
ing. I remember saying to him, "It isn't 
always easy to show a person how to do a 
thing that may be comparatively easy to do. 
The best way to study the Bible is to study 
it. If you get at it and let commentaries alone 
you may find a way. If you do, it will be your 
way, and that may be the best way for the 
use you will make of the Book in the work you 
may find to do. Buy an inexpensive Bible 
to begin with, one you will not hesitate to 
mark, and spend a little time with it each 
day. It may be well for you to begin with the 
New Testament. Read with great care and 
mark such passages as particularly appeal to 

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you. For convenience in reference, it may be 
well for you to mark all passages pertaining 
to salvation in red, and all references to sin 
and its wages in blue." 

Within a few days, I called on him at the 
"Holly Shop," and found to my surprise that 
he had a Bible open on his lathe, and between 
its pages lay a pencil with red and blue leads, 
which he had already begun to use. His prog- 
ress was almost phenomenal. In a compara- 
tively short time he became able to quote and 
locate accurately more Bible texts than any 
man I knew. With his growth in knowledge 
came a corresponding growth in grace and in 
efficiency, and my friend was in great demand 
for "Bible readings," which in that day were 
very popular, and in the giving of which he 
had become an expert. 

In the late spring of 1877, 1 went to Europe 
and left Robert in charge of the Association. 
He was not only attentive to its needs and 
faithful in the discharge of his new duties, 
but he was most considerate of my family and 
proved his friendship for me by numerous and 
unsolicited acts of kindness in their behalf. 
When in London, I purchased a wide-margin 
Bagster Bible, and on my return presented it 
to the dear fellow, who had already found such 
a large place in my heart. No man ever be- 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 23 

came more closely related to a book than did 
Robert become related to this particular 
Bible. Neither an expensive diamond nor a 
large purse of money would have pleased him 
as much. The Book went where he went; they 
were practically inseparable. No memorial 
of his life would be complete if more than a 
single chapter were not devoted to the man 
and his Bible. Indeed, he and it were so inter- 
woven that every chapter must necessarily 
contain more or less reference to that relation- 
ship. He came to be known among Christian 
workers and other friends as 

"The Man of One Book" 

He had begun searching the Scriptures be- 
fore the big Bible came into his possession. 
At the lathe he found time, in the intervals 
when the material adjusted in the lathe took 
care of itself for the next few minutes, to 
study his Bible without neglecting his allotted 
work; and at lunch he could well afford to 
take forty minutes of the hour that other men 
spent in smoking and telling unprofitable 
stories, for feeding on the Word that "maketh 
wise unto salvation." He was thus eating that 
which is good, and his soul was delighting it- 
self in fatness, according to the Word of the 
Lord in Isaiah 55 : 2. 



24 ROBERT GARRY 

Now that he had gotten the new book, with 
its limp leather binding and golden-edged 
pages, he was rather shy about marking it. He 
was disposed to keep this Book as it were for 
"dress parade," until one day when he was 
showing it to a friend, the man had occasion 
to sneeze, and to Robert's disgust, the page 
was sprinkled with tobacco juice. He at once 
found comfort in Romans 8 : 28, declaring that 
this apparent misfortune was one of the "all 
things that work together for good." Since 
this page was disfigured, he could well afford 
to bring his pen and various shades of ink to 
mark this Book as he had marked another. 
Within two or three years his Bible became a 
curiosity in conventions and elsewhere. He 
and his Book were sought out by persons, 
several of whom I have known to copy copi- 
ously into their Bibles the comments Robert 
had made in his. 

A Unique Use of the Bible 

So familiar had he become with its contents 
that he made it serve him as we make the dic- 
tionary serve us when in doubt about the spell- 
ing of certain words. For instance, in writ- 
ing a letter upon one occasion, he needed to 
use the word "business"; and being in doubt 
as to whether the "i" came before or after the 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 25 

"s," he turned to Luke 2 : 49, and read, "Wist 
ye not that I must be about my Father's busi- 
ness?" Again, he wanted to write the word 
"government," but could not spell it correctly 
until he had turned to Isaiah 9 : 6, and read, 
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is 
given : and the government shall be upon his 
shoulder: and his name shall be called Won- 
derful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The ever- 
lasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Bead- 
ing it aloud, he exclaimed, "How can any 
Christian doubt the deity of Jesus Christ in 
the light of that verse?" And then he said 
to a friend at his side, "Let's have a little 
study on this blessed doctrine," and together 
they ran through the Book, collating texts 
until a first-class Bible reading on this par- 
ticular subject was the result. 

His exegesis of portions of Scripture might 
not stand the test of modern scholarship, but 
I'd rather have Kobert Garry's knowledge of 
the Bible than the speculations of all the 
schools in Christendom concerning it. The 
"thus saith the Lord" or "it is written" was 
proof sufficient for his rugged faith. He said 
to me once, "Psalm 18 : 28 takes the place of 
college training in my case." Turning to the 
text, I read, "For thou wilt light my candle: 
the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness." 



26 ROBERT GARRY 

He would say with emphasis, "His Word is 
a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my 
path." I have discovered recently that the 
Hebrew word used for path in this text is 
literally "trodden path." It is that kind of a 
path unto which His word is light. Robert 
had it because he spent so much time with his 
Bible. 

In a public address in Duluth, Minn., he 
said, "The Bible is my constant companion, 
my textbook, the Book that educated me, and 
has given me all my inspiration in life. I have 
had very limited schooling, nothing more than 
the three 'R's/ but by careful reading of the 
Bible I have improved my command of lan- 
guage and my knowledge of men and affairs, 
and it has broadened my mind in general." 
He literally lived by the Book. 

I recall his bringing an illustration to me 
that he had gotten in the shop. The master 
mechanic brought him a drawing and ordered 
him to make a piece of work after its pattern. 
In looking it over he thought he had discov- 
ered where an advantageous change might be 
made, but it occurred to him that the master 
knew his business and that the best thing for 
him was to go by the drawing. He finished 
the work according to the plan and received 
the approval of his boss. As he related this 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 27 

experience, he added, "Fm afraid there are 
some 'D.D.'s' who are suggesting changes in 
God's plan of salvation as given to us in the 
Book, who will find themselves mistaken in 
the time of testing." 

His Sense of Humor 

Robert had a sense of humor which was 
most attractive. It asserted itself in most 
unexpected ways and at most unexpected 
times. No Irishman had keener wit than he. 
His failure to secure even a common-school 
education was noticeable in his spelling as 
well as in his grammar; but the former defect 
is not uncommon among college graduates, 
and the latter may be occasionally discovered 
in the chronic critic. Taking up my friend's 
Bible one day, I happened on the word 
"Satan" which he had written on the margin 
of the page. Calling his attention to it, I said, 
"Bob, you have the old fellow's name spelled 
wrongly." He said, "What do you mean?" 
"Why," said I, "you haven't spelled the word 
'Satan' correctly." "How have I spelled it?" 
was his reply, "I thought I knew the old fellow 
well enough to spell his name." I said, 
"You've spelled it <s-a-t-i-n.' " "Well, what 
does 's-a-t-i-n' spell?" said he. "Satin," was 
my reply. Quick as a flash, he said, "Well, 



28 ROBERT GARRY 

we will just let it stay as it is, for that's the 
kind of dress the devil wears every time he 
gets after Bob." What philosophy was ex- 
pressed in this flash of wit ! How many of us, 
who have come to hate sin in general, are 
caught by the glossed suggestions of the evil 
one ! How often defeat is encountered in life's 
struggle because of parleying with a question- 
able, but attractive, evil proposition! 

His Devotion to the Bible 

This unlettered man — according to the 
schools — was so devoted to the Bible and so 
absorbed its contents that he had prepared 
over five hundred Bible readings, many of 
which are gems in method of arrangement and 
are full of most wholesome instruction. Con- 
cerning some of these, he wrote me in 1909, 
saying, "While in Binghamton I gave four 
Bible readings on the inspiration of the Bible, 
and the school had them put in print. This 
subject I have been working on more or less 
from the time you gave me the Book thirty- 
two years ago." 

His diligence in this particular was due 
largely to his having appropriated in the be- 
ginning of his Christian life those verses in 
the first chapter of Joshua: 

"Only be thou strong and very courageous, that 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 29 

thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, 
which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not 
from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou 
mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy 
mouth ; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, 
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that 
is written therein : for then thou shalt make thy way 
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 

Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a 
good courage ; be not afraid, neither be thou dis- 
mayed : for the Lord thy God is with thee whitherso- 
ever thou goest." 

These words, addressed to Joshua after the 
death of Moses, Kobert Garry made the plat- 
form and program of his life. Frequently 
have I heard him say, "The man who will live 
by this Book will never go wrong and stay 
wrong; nor will he ever want for any good 
thing. You know it is written in Psalm 34: 
10, 'They that seek the Lord shall not want 
any good thing/ " and then he would exclaim 
with emphasis, " 'Shall,' it's absolutely sure." 

Robert's dwelling place, I discovered, was 
within the circumference of Hebrews 4 : 16 
and Philippians 4 : 19 : 

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of 
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to 
help in time of need." 

"My God shall supply all your need according to 
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." 

He tested and proved the words of Isaiah in 



30 ROBERT GARRY 

that wonderful 55th chapter, at the second 
verse : 

"Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 
which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fat- 
ness." 

He lived on the Word, and thus found it 
easy to live by the Word. 

He was always quoting Scripture and had 
the faculty of making it fit into ordinary con- 
versation. He began and closed most of his 
letters with some verse of Scripture, and used 
"stickers" for his envelopes to carry the truth 
of the Gospel. His greetings and farewells 
were generally spoken in the phraseology of 
the Bible, and frequently he would work in 
some Scripture text in answering questions 
put to him by strangers. On one occasion a 
man inquired of him the way to a certain place 
in Lockport. After giving him the directions, 
he said, "Be sure and read Psalm 32 : 8." The 
man said, "What's that? What do you mean?" 
"Why," said Robert, "that's where God says, 
'I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way 
which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with 
mine eye.' " Bidding good-by to some ac- 
quaintance, Robert said, "Meet me in the 
morning at Philippians 4 : 19," to which came 
the reply, "I don't know that place; where is 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 31 

it?" This gave him the coveted opportunity 
to urge upon the person the claim of the Gos- 
pel. In leaving my camp where he had spent 
much of the summer as my guest, he sang out 
as he jumped into the auto, "Good-by; God 
bless you ; read Hebrews 6 : 10." Going into 
the bungalow, I took up my Bible, and read : 

"For God is not unrighteous to forget your work 
and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his 
name, in that ye have ministered to the saints and 
do minister." 

During that day I found a bit of paper he had 
left on my desk, and on which he had written : 

Our Security. Three Blessed Facts. 
Our Past: I Sam. 7: 12. "Hitherto hath the 

Lord helped us." 
Our Present : II Cor. 12 : 9. "My grace is 

sufficient for thee." 
Our Future: Gen. 22:14. "The Lord will 

provide." 

In one of his letters to me, he said, "The 
dear good old Book grows more wonderful and 
more glorious and more precious every day. 
It is the one and only Book that is entirely 
and eternally true. It has done a lot for your 
old friend Robert, I can tell you. I give it 
the first place in all the efforts I make for the 
Kingdom. The church or the Y. M. C. A. that 



32 ROBERT GARRY 

is most used of God wherever I go is the one 
that makes much of the Scriptures, and this 
is true of the individual believer also. In 
order to get the most light from the Word, 
we must put out our own candle." He closed 
his letter with Romans 15 : 13, which reads : 

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and 
peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in 
the power of the Holy Spirit." 

And then he added, "All joy; all peace. In 
what? In believing." 

Loss of His Big Bible 

There came a time, however, when Robert 
and his big Bible were forced to part company. 
It was in the winter of 1913. He wrote me 
from Columbus, Ohio, with reference to the 
burglarizing of my bungalow, and said, "Well, 
my dear fellow, there is so much of that going 
on all over the country. I have a similar ex- 
perience to relate. When I reached Cleveland 
on my way here from Lockport, we had to 
change cars and wait six hours for a train to 
Columbus. Just before its arrival, I reached 
for my suit cases and found one of them gone. 
Some one had taken that leather case I had 
carried for fourteen years. It contained a 
new suit of clothes, that fine razor your 
brother-in-law, Mr. Kepner, gave me, and 



STUDY AND USE OF THE BIBLE 33 

many things I never can replace. Among 
these was the dear old Book you gave me in 
1877. I do hope I may recover this, though 
I have need of the other things, too. There 
is no doubt about the grip being stolen, for it 
was too heavy for any one to carry off by mis- 
take, so you see both of us have had a little 
of the same treatment. I am glad I have so 
much of the Bible in my head, as well as in 
my heart, and I am comforted with Eomans 

8:28." 

The loss of his Bible was a most serious one, 
since the margins of its pages contained his 
annotations from many years' study. Special 
prayer was offered for its recovery; the aid of 
policemen in Cleveland was secured, but the 
Book was not found. Notwithstanding his 
keen regret, he looked upon its loss in a most 
philosophical manner, and with Christian 
resignation. He said to me, "Maybe I had 
come to think too much of that particular 
Bible; maybe I was becoming proud of it, 
since so many people were asking to see it, and 
many of them were praising me for my work 
in it; and possibly I was depending so much 
upon the matter I had worked out and put 
upon its pages that I might become lazy." 
Thus he became reconciled to the loss of the 
Book, but not without much effort and prayer. 



34 ROBERT GARRY 

Many persons have expressed wonder at his 
grasp of the Bible and attributed it to his 
memory. While he had a most retentive 
memory, it was necessary for him to read the 
Bible more than casually in order to become 
so proficient in its use. I remember hearing 
a man in a Bible class Robert was addressing 
ask, "How do you know so many Bible verses 
and are able to tell just where to find them?" 
His characteristic reply made a most pro- 
found impression. He said, "In coming from 
Lockport to Rochester, I noticed the brake- 
man would call the stations as we approached 
them, and do it without looking out of the car 
or at his time-table. As soon as I got an oppor- 
tunity I asked the brakeman how he could 
tell the stations with such accuracy, and he 
said, 'Because I go over the road so often.* " 
That was the secret of Robert Garry's knowl- 
edge of and familiarity with the Bible. His 
memory was a large asset, but his application, 
his persistent and continued study of the 
Bible, and his daily meditation therein ac- 
counted for the frequency and accuracy with 
which he quoted its texts in private conversa- 
tion or upon the public platform. He did it 
because he went over its pages so often. Most 
of us would be able to use the Book as he did 
were we as devoted as was he to its study. 



Chapter IV 

HIS QUALITIES 

"Formed on the good old plan, 
A true and brave and downright honest man : 
He blew no trumpet in the market-place, 
"Nor in the church, with hypocritic face 
Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; 
Loathing pretense, he did with cheerful will 
What others talked of, while their hands were still." 

— Whittier. 

Many qualities which adorned this rare life 
might be specified, yet they could all be 
summed up in one word — Devotion. 

His earnestness, his ardent love or affection, 
was the prominent trait of his character. He 
was earnestly devoted to his family, to his 
friends, to his country, and not least to his 
God. No sacrifice was too great for him to 
make, not even life which he gave so lavishly 
through the years of his earthly pilgrimage, 
and finally surrendered in his indirect service 
to his country at seventy-three years of age. 

The component parts of this crowning 
quality may well pass under observation in 
determining the true worth of the man. 

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36 ROBERT GARRY 

Truthfulness may be placed first among the 
foundation stones in the structure of his char- 
acter. My friend's "word was as good as a 
bond." Absolute dependence could be placed 
upon his promises. His reliability, as well as 
his skill as a mechanic, made him one of the 
most valuable employes in the company he 
served for so many years. 

Alongside of, and joined with, truthfulness 
was Fidelity. His adherence to a person or 
cause to which he was bound by ties of friend- 
ship or obligation was admirable, and almost, 
if not altogether, unusual. He would make 
opportunity, if none could be found, for an 
exhibition of this cardinal virtue. No service 
was too menial for him to render in contribut- 
ing to the comfort of his friends or to the 
alleviation of their sufferings; and he would 
do as much for his enemies, if he had any, if 
thereby he might make the kindly act bear 
testimony to the grace of God in him. 

Upon one occasion when we were together 
in my camp, I was suffering much discomfort 
from crippled feet. Robert would bathe them 
and rub them with alcohol and oil as we sat 
before a blazing fire on the hearth. Thus en- 
gaged one evening, he deliberately thrust my 
great toe into his mouth and nipped it with 
his teeth. Expressing my surprise at his 



HIS QUALITIES 37 

action, he said, "Why, beloved, I would a good 
deal rather kiss your toe than the toe of St. 
Peter." Whether in his home, or among his 
friends outside, or in service as a soldier, he 
was always unconsciously displaying this 
splendid quality of sterling character, which 
had running through it a vein of humor which 
he could not, or did not try to, suppress. 

Humor was not the least attractive among 
the fascinating qualities which my friend 
possessed. He was born with it. He was full 
of fun amidst all the hardships of his early 
days. While attending school in the all-too- 
little time afforded him for this purpose, he 
was alert for opportunities for practical jok- 
ing. Among the pranks he played was one 
to which he occasionally referred, since it was 
a great success without inflicting injury upon 
any one. The school teacher was severe in 
his discipline and incurred thereby the dislike 
of nearly all the pupils. One of his favorite 
ways of punishing the boys was to compel 
them to saw and chop wood for the old- 
fashioned drum stove. Robert, desiring to get 
even with the teacher, and afraid to trust any 
other boy with his secret, went alone to the 
wood-pile, secured a good-sized chunk of wood 
and bored a hole in it lengthwise. Then, in- 
serting a small charge of powder, he plugged 



38 ROBERT GARRY 

the hole and threw the piece of wood back 
upon the pile. A day or two later there was 
an explosion which damaged the stove and 
created much consternation among the pupils 
and teacher, and the boy who perpetrated the 
joke was apparently as badly frightened as 
w^ere his schoolmates. 

Among his comrades in the army he was a 
leader in fun-making. Upon one occasion he 
helped to secure and secrete under the cap- 
tain's bunk a hornet's nest which, when suffi- 
ciently warm, made things quite interesting in 
the officer's quarters, and would have con- 
fined in the guardhouse the men who did the 
stunt if they had been discovered. He sent a 
"raw recruit" to the chaplain for a remedy 
for mumps and another to the doctor to ask 
if it were wrong to play poker for dollars. 

In after years, this fun-loving spirit would 
crop out whether in the home or in the shop, 
and semi-occasionally in recreation hours at 
Christian conventions. No man enjoyed a 
joke better than he, and it pleased him just as 
much whether he were the victim or the perpe- 
trator. 

Enthusiasm was one of his very prominent 
qualities. It was part of his nature; and 
coupled with fearlessness, or courage, it made 
him one of the most wholesome and valuable 



HIS QUALITIES 39 

associates in any enterprise in which he could 
be enlisted. This quality in my friend's char- 
acter answered to the definition first in order 
of arrangement in "Webster" or in the Cen- 
tury Dictionary. His enthusiasm was "an 
ecstasy of mind as if from inspiration or pos- 
session by a spiritual influence." In much of 
his enthusiastic endeavor during the last forty 
years of his life he was divinely led. What 
he may have lacked in polish or culture was 
more than compensated for in his downright 
earnestness and sincerity. 

He would rejoice in his weariness of body 
or mind if it were the result of service in be- 
half of others. I never knew his zeal to flag. 
If his strength were spent, he would nerve 
himself for any task by which he might serve 
friend, country or the Kingdom of Christ. 
Whatever of apparent sickness he suffered 
came generally because of his persistent and 
indomitable doing for others. He ate little, 
comparatively; slept like a well baby; had 
lots of sunshine in his nature, which kindled 
and kept aflame his contagious enthusiasm. 

With this quality was beautifully blended 
that kindred trait known as Optimism. Based 
upon his belief that "whatever exists is right 
and good in some inscrutable way, in spite of 
all observation to the contrary," he was un- 



40 ROBERT GARRY 

daunted by apparent defeat, because he knew 
that ultimately right would triumph. 

He lived in the blessed hope of the Lord's 
return — "when the kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 
Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." 
Such a hope in a man leaves no place for 
pessimism. Victory absolutely assured is the 
pole-star of hope. The second advent of our 
Lord is the spur to Christian activity, and all 
who are watching for Him, and believe in the 
teachings connected with His promised ap- 
pearing, must of necessity have all their en- 
deavor tinged with true optimism. Robert 
Garry was an optimist. 

His Generosity was as large as his heart, 
and his heart was as large as the Creator 
could put into one man. He gave of his 
strength and of his limited means most lav- 
ishly. I have known him to work all day in 
the shop, give a public Bible reading in the 
evening, sit with a sick friend through the 
night, and go on with his work the next day. 
If he had but a couple of dollars in his pocket, 
and some worthy acquaintance came to him in 
need, he would give the two dollars rather 
than divide it. 

These qualities were sufficient to have made 
him a strong man; but to have acquired the 



HIS QUALITIES 41 

character which placed him in a class above 
the common or ordinary Christian, it was 
necessary for him to have Spirituality. This 
was his predominant characteristic, and with 
the accompanying graces of sympathy and 
humility made him delightfully companion- 
able. Faith and expectation were the warp 
and filling of the tapestry of prayer, with 
which he enfolded himself and all others for 
whom Christ died. 

While to the casual observer he may have 
seemed rugged, without being austere or harsh, 
yet he had a heart as tender as the heart of 
a pure woman. In the forty odd years of our 
companionship, I never knew him to tell a 
coarse or vulgar story. Such a tribute can- 
not be truthfully paid to all Christians, for 
I have heard some most salacious stories from 
the lips of men who held high office in the 
church. Profanity shocked the sensitive soul 
of my friend, and wherever he heard it he 
sought opportunity to upbraid in a gracious 
and effective way the person who had used it 
within his hearing. 

His prayer-life was one of the evidences of 
the nearness with which he lived to Christ. 
His prayers were so interwoven with the 
Scriptures that they sometimes sounded as if 
they were taken literally from the Bible. He 



42 ROBERT GARRY 

talked in most familiar fashion with the Lord, 
and made one feel as if He and Robert were 
really sitting together in sweet converse. He 
prayed as a "friend talketh with a friend." 
Sometimes he would mention by name many 
of his friends and commend them to God in 
most affectionate manner. At meals his 
thanksgiving for daily benefits was a joy to 
those of us who heard it. He lived day by day 
in an atmosphere which was charged with the 
presence of God. He had "put off the old man 
with his doings" and had "put on the new 
man/' and gave undoubted evidence that he 
was bearing "the fruit of the Spirit — love, joy, 
peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, meekness, self-control." He had 
"crucified the flesh with the passions and the 
lusts thereof." He lived and walked by the 
Spirit. While he loved wholesome fun, he was 
unworldly, and created by his presence and 
the use he made of the Book which was so 
dear to him, an atmosphere which was as 
refreshing as it was stimulating. I have heard 
others say, "I am always made better by com- 
panionship with Robert Garry." 



Chapter V 

SOME OF HIS QUALITIES EXHIBITED 
IN PERSONAL LETTERS 

The following letter was written October 7, 
1900, concerning an evangelistic campaign in 
Lockport, which eventuated in a most success- 
ful series of meetings : 

"Everything is now looking bright for your coming 
to Lockport to work again for Him. It was not hard 
work, dear brother, to create an interest in your com- 
ing, all the saints I spoke to about it were anxious 
to have you come. What is most needed now is fervent 
prayer. Many are looking to God for His presence, 
help and blessing without Whom we can do nothing." 

Then, referring to some of his own work in 
and about New York City, he continued : 

"While in Montclair I took dinner with dear 
George A. Hall, also took breakfast and dinner with 
Charles Kilborne at Orange, also lodged Saturday 
night with him. He and his good Christian wife 
drove over after me and carried me back in time for 
meetings next day. They have a little ten-year-old 
son who is a mighty child in the Scriptures. I read 
in Acts 18 : 24 of a mighty man in the Scriptures, 
but here I found a mighty child. You must some 
day see his marked Bible and also see how he can 

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handle it. I am counting on our Bible study while 
you are with us. Do you intend to make our home 
your own while here or have you something else in 
view; if not, don't be ashamed to write us in full 
what you find in Philemon 22. Beloved, such as our 
home is you know it is yours at all times. I am now 
feeling first rate, doing lots of Bible study and giving 
it out as fast as I get it." 

In 1907, I wrote him with reference to his 
finances, and the following was all he said 
concerning it (the Father was the only one to 
whom he talked concerning his money mat- 
ters) : 

"Yes, I now get a pension of twelve dollars per 
month as every old soldier now receives that amount 
each month, and some of them more. I suppose 
you come in on this with the rest of us. It comes 
in very handy now-a-days, as I have not been out in 
the work since leaving Harrisburg, Penn., last De- 
cember, but if Ella can be left alone later on will 
make some dates for fall and winter." 

The following shows his interest in the 
work of the Kingdom and his persistent appli- 
cation in Bible study (the Bible he refers to 
was given to him in 1877). Writing from 
Lockport, in 1909, he says : 

"Our good brother in Christ Tarbox tells me that 
you are kept quite busy. I am glad you are still 
able to keep in line while many dear saints have 
passed over since we came into the light, and are 
permitted to tarry here. . . . While in Binghamton 
gave four Bible Readings on the inspiration of the 



PERSONAL LETTERS 45 

Bible. The Bible School had them put in print, a 
copy of which I enclose. This subject I have been 
working on more or less from the time you gave me 
the Bagster Bible." 

His interest in helping others to know the 
truth led him away from home more than 
some of his friends thought wise. I took him 
to task for it in a letter I wrote to him in 1909, 
and from which I quote : 

"And, now, you old scamp, I want to scold a bit. 
For the past two or three years in most of your let- 
ters you have reminded me that you were going to 
stay at home more and take better care of Ella. Why 
don't you do it ? How much harder it is to do than 
to say. I've found this out in many of the experi- 
ences of my life, and doubtless we are 'two of a kind/ 
But, never mind, we are getting older; we are nearly 
through our school days, and I trust by the time 
graduation comes we will have so learned our lessons 
as to pass a good examination and hear the Teacher 
say, Veil done/ " 

Writing me later in the year from his home 
after he had visited Northfield, Mass., he says : 

"Northfield has so changed in more ways than one. 
So much preaching and so very little Bible study or 
exposition, and you know the latter is what I am the 
most fond of. I did some good personal work while 
there and met many small groups between meetings 
over the Word/' 

In the same letter, he expressed a growing 
desire for some quiet little spot, in which he 



46 ROBERT GARRY 

and I could have uninterrupted opportunity 
for studying the Bible together. To this let- 
ter, I replied, saying : 

"I am sorry we could not have had a couple of 
days at least together when you were so near Boston. 
I am planning now for a couple of weeks' vacation in 
the mountains of New Hampshire to begin about the 
11th of September. I wonder if you could make it 
convenient to leave home at that time and share a 
real vacation with me. Pd like to have you for my 
guest from the time you leave Lockport until you 
return." 

In his immediate reply to my letter, he said : 

"Well, beloved, I cannot tell you how much I appre- 
ciate your great kindness in asking me to be your 
guest for two weeks in the mountains of New Hamp- 
shire. I know of nothing that would give me more 
pure delight, but could not think of your being put 
to any such expense for me. If there were openings 
where I could do a little work after the outing to 
defray expenses would be glad to be with you, but 
this could not now be arranged, for the time is too 
short. I have done very little paying work for the 
past two years, not having received over a hundred 
dollars in all, so do not feel like even sharing the 
expense for this vacation. Don't lose hope, however, 
we may have it some time." 

Answering this letter from my friend, I was 
led to say: 

"Your reference to financial compensation being 
so small for the work you did during the past two 
years uncovers anew the fact to which I have so often 



PERSONAL LETTERS 47 

referred. There are plenty of Associations that will 
let Bob come, because he comes and goes without any 
apparent concern for the wherewithal necessary to 
support his family. It's the same old story. It ought 
not to be so, but it is. A lot of real good folks seem 
to think because the Master had no place to lay His 
head that all His disciples ought to be content with 
the same pillowless fare." 

Robert was so much afraid of interfering 
with what he believed to be God's plan for him 
and his family that he kept finances as much 
beneath the surface as many evangelists put 
them above the surface. He was so much 
afraid of friends' sacrificing to help him that 
there were times when he would positively 
decline to receive money sent him, as the fol- 
lowing extract from a letter will show : 

"And now only a word about the check enclosed 
from my dear brother full of love to Christ and such 
generosity. We are deeply touched by this token of 
Christian love from you but Ella and myself unani- 
mously decided, Ella taking the lead, that like the 
water drawn for David at Bethlehem's well the sacri- 
fice is one that we cannot accept. (II Samuel 23 : 13- 
17.) You will not misunderstand us, I am sure, in 
returning your gift. Christ knows your heart and 
that you do it for His sake. He has more than pro- 
vided for our wants. I am too weak to write more. 
Will only add we will some day, I hope, have our 
little outing either up this way or in New England." 

The following shows his delight in the serv- 
ice others rendered for our Lord: 



48 KOBERT GARRY 

"Had fine time with our good brother Pettingill 
in his Brooklyn Bible class. He is much loved and 
used in New York and Brooklyn in Bible teaching. 
A Kussian named Wm. Fetler conducted meetings in 
Mrs. Fitch's home for one week recently, a most re- 
markable man of God. Only few people came to hear 
him. They are so busy making green-backs to save." 

Relative to the "Billy" Sunday Campaign 
in Buffalo, in 1917, he writes : 

"Yours of February 22nd duly received. Am find- 
ing much hurry and rush in this campaign, as you 
did in Boston when Billy was there. Lots to do at 
all times. Fine shop meetings and all kinds of other 
meetings and any amount of personal work sand- 
wiched in between. I note what you say in your letter 
about slowing up. Forty-one years is a long time to 
wear the harness amidst so many activities as teacher, 
preacher, evangelist, personal worker, etc. Well, my 
dear fellow, you have been a great help and blessing 
to me from the first. No living man has helped me 
more and you may depend I fully appreciate it and 
have always told the people so." 

Among his letters to the author from Camp 
Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 
was one just before his illness became suffi- 
ciently serious to put him in the hospital. In 
this, he said : 

"My dear old Comrade — Your last letter for 1917 
came duly to hand although mails here are much be- 
hindhand. The cough remedy you sent has just 
arrived. The cold wave struck this camp hard, froze 
and burst water pipes in our building and in others 
as well. Much as I would love to have you here with 



PERSONAL LETTERS 49 

me in this most blessed work, the weather would be 
too hard for you in your present condition. Been out 
of wood for some time; have some coal, poor stuff it 
is, makes little or no heat; nevertheless, we thank 
Gk>d for it as well as for other needed articles in camp. 
It's been cold ever since I reached this camp. Hope 
soon to have some warm weather to melt the snow 
at least. Never had such a severe cold in my life. It 
refuses thus far to yield to all remedies." 

The following extracts are from his letters 
to Mrs. Cornelia K. Fitch, a very warm per- 
sonal friend: 

"Don't forget me in the great field and work in 
prayer." 

"The recent great cold wave hit the camp hard. 
Snow now melting, which makes walking in deep 
mud hard work. Men are well provided for now, 
blankets, good living and clothing. Some so anxious 
to go to France." 

"Men rush to our building (Y. M. C. A.) as soon 
as open. Enjoy two large furnace fires and large 
fireplace. Eoom 40x120 always warm for the men, 
where they find writing paper, envelopes, pens, 
pencils, ink, etc., and free for all. The Association 
has been a wonderful blessing and help to the men 
this winter in all army camps. The Government is 
also doing all in its power for the men's comfort. 
This sort of weather was not expected in this part 
of the country. Many men sick with severe colds. I 
have coughed harder this month than in all my life 
before." 

"Wish you could look into this building and see the 
crowd: hundreds of men, many writing. There are 
six long writing tables nearly whole length of build- 
ing and every seat occupied ; others waiting to write." 



50 ROBERT GARRY 

"I have a free hand in all the camp as well as in 
the building to give out the pure Gospel. Scores of 
soldiers have already accepted our Lord Jesus Christ 
and written their home address in my blank book. 
The fact of my having been in Civil War gives me 
an extra grip on men. You would be pleased to see 
them gather around me to ask questions and advice. 
You may send any number of tracts. I can get 
Christian soldiers to pass them out judiciously." 

Another letter was full of thanksgiving for 
sweater, shoes, helmet, underwear, etc., sent 
him by friends. He said : 

"No man in camp, even General Eyan with whom 
I took dinner today with some thirty others, has finer 
footwear. I have received several boxes and have a 
variety of good things. It seems like a dream." 

"If a Christian knows how to win souls this is one 
rich field to work in. Have had six Hebrews accept 
Christ. When shown by the Word that their Messiah 
has come, it seems to satisfy them." 



Chapter VI 
TOGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD 

After I came to live in New England, Robert 
and I met with far less frequency. He often 
expressed in his letters to me a desire for a 
reunion in some secluded spot where we might 
again study the Word together. He concluded 
a letter to me, in 1909, with these words: "I 
would like to have about two weeks with you 
over the Word in some quiet place and at the 
same time have a little season of rest together; 
but such a time does not seem to be in sight at 
present. It may be if I should go to Paw- 
tucket that I could spend a day with you in 
Boston, but do not count on it." 

Several plans were made with the suggested 
study in view, but they failed to materialize 
until, in 1910, I bought a little piece of woods 
in Holderness, N. H., and built a bungalow, 
to which Robert came with me June 3rd of 
that year, and remained until July 29th. 
Prom that time until now (almost eight years 
later), we spent more or less time each sum- 
mer, save one, in most delightful and profit- 

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52 ROBERT GARRY 

able fellowship amidst the pines of Nestle- 
wood. He could work in wood as skilfully as 
he had worked in metal, and many are the 
evidences of his handiwork in and about the 
bungalow. 

It was always difficult to keep him quiet. 
He secured his rest by change of occupation. 
If there was nothing to do in camp, he would 
walk through the village in search of some one 
whom he might interest in the power and 
blessing of the Gospel. And none of these 
walks were fruitless. Upon one occasion, he 
came back after a longer absence than usual, 
and exclaimed as he entered the door, "An- 
other victory! I got the landlord to accept 
Christ, and he promised to come over tomor- 
row and tell you about it." This bit of work 
was so well done that the next afternoon we 
saw the man approaching our camp. He came 
in unceremoniously, and said, "Well, Sayford, 
I promised Garry Fd call today and tell you 
what he got me to do." I said, "That's good, 
John, what have you got to say?" He replied, 
"Well, I've accepted Christ as my Saviour the 
best I know how, and I will try to do the right 
thing the rest of my life." In a few minutes, 
we three men were on our knees in prayer of 
thanksgiving for another trophy of God's 
matchless grace, and we besought Him for 



TOGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD 53 

keeping power for the man who, thus late in 
life, committed himself to God. 

Robert preached and gave Bible readings in 
the church near by and taught the little Sun- 
day school many Sundays during the seasons 
we were in camp together. It was interesting 
to watch the people gather about him after 
service and ply him with questions concerning 
the truth he knew so well. 

He was particularly fond of children and 
would enter into their sports with the zest of 
a boy. Although he had passed threescore 
and ten milestones in life's journey, he could 
climb a tree as easily as any country boy, and 
do more work in a given number of hours than 
the average modern laborer. 

One summer, we found that a limb of one 
of the tallest pines had been broken by the 
winter's storm and was fastened in a crotch 
near the top of the tree. Robert was bent on 
getting that dead branch, but I forbade his 
climbing so high; and he said, with that at- 
tractive little twinkle in his eye, "In the pres- 
ence of the boss I must obey." Embracing 
an opportunity, however, which came when 
I went to the Bridge, he equipped himself for 
the coveted task. When I returned I discov- 
ered him among the topmost branches of the 
pine, girded with saw and hatchet. The dead 



54 ROBERT GARRY 

limb was lying on the ground. The only reply 
he made to my chiding was, "I didn't think 
you'd get back so soon." He was the most 
agile man for his years I ever knew. He had 
sinews like steel; his endurance was remark- 
able. Many a tree did he fell and saw and 
chop and store away under the bungalow, and 
call the work fun. "With such drinking water 
and such good living/' he said, "a well man 
ought to be able to do anything needed in a 
camp like this." 

It was amusing to see him when he'd come 
in contact with a hornet's nest and the hornets 
would come in touch with him. Though he 
might receive more or less stings, the destruc- 
tion of that nest was a foregone conclusion. 
He'd burn it out. One day, my neighbor was 
standing on his side of the fence, and he and 
I were watching Robert clearing brush in- 
fested with the troublesome insects. Directly 
there was an attack made upon us by that 
species of bee or hornet that build their nests 
near or in the ground, or in old decayed 
stumps. My neighbor left hastily for his 
house, as I did for mine. Robert said he'd 
stay and see the fun, and he did until com- 
pelled to leave because of the furious attack 
the "critters" made upon him. Several of 
them followed him into the house. These we 



TOGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD 55 

killed with difficulty, and were somewhat the 
worse for the fight. I applied remedies to the 
stings which he had received, while he enter- 
tained me with a plan he had for routing the 
enemy. Early next morning, before break- 
fast, the deed was done, and the clearing was 
made without further molestation. 

His sense of humor found ready expression 
in our camp life. Away from the constraints 
of society, in a place to which we had come for 
relaxation, there was lots of opportunity for 
the play of the boy side of our natures. We 
had great enjoyment one day in watching a 
good-sized boy whom he had induced to set a 
parrot's cage, in which to catch a woodchuck. 
According to Robert's instructions, the boy 
fastened a string to the open door of the cage, 
in which he had placed some vegetable to at- 
tract the chuck. Fixing himself alongside a 
nearby rock with the other end of the string 
in hand, he was watching for the opportunity 
to pull it. Robert would exhort the boy to be 
patient and to keep perfectly still, and thus 
he kept one of the most boisterous chaps in the 
neighborhood quiet for over an hour. 

Upon another occasion, he went to the clerk 
in the postoffice, and said, "I understand that 
Mr. Sayford got thirteen two cent stamps here 
for a cent and a quarter." "That can't be 



56 ROBERT GARRY 

possible, Mr. Garry/' said the clerk. "Well,"' 
replied the joker, "Mr. Sayford said so, and I 
am sure he would not tell a lie, and I think 
you ought to let me have the stamps at the 
same price you sold them to him." The clerk 
said that there must be some mistake and in- 
sisted that Mr. Garry should bring me to the 
office. Refusing to do this, he said, "You give 
me thirteen two cent stamps, and I'll prove to 
you that Mr. Sayford spoke the truth." Hesi- 
tatingly the stamps were handed out, where- 
upon Robert laid down a quarter of a dollar 
and one cent, and then he walked out of the 
office laughing. 

He could dance as good a "clog" as I ever 
satv on the stage of a minstrel show, and two 
or three times I got him to do it for me on 
the smooth hardwood floor of the bungalow. 
These performances, however, were always of 
brief duration, since he said they smacked too 
much of the life he had forsaken some years 
before. 

The loss of his companionship will rob 
Nestlewood of much of its charm for me. My, 
how he loved music! He played the har- 
monica as well as anyone I ever heard. Many 
an evening we had a most enjoyable time with 
his little instrument, my "Victor," and an 
occasional select reading, invariably, however, 



TOGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD 57 

closing with reciting Scripture texts and hav- 
ing a word of prayer. There were some records 
which, when put on the machine, brought 
tears to the dear fellow's eyes, whilst others 
would provoke hilarious laughter. Tetraz- 
zini's high notes in the "Carnival of Venice" 
or her "Swiss Echo Song" would evoke excla- 
mations of wonder, mingled with tears, when- 
ever he would hear them. Though he could 
not understand a word of Italian, the marvel- 
ous range of her voice excited his wonder and 
admiration. Going from classic music to 
"ragtime," the other side of his nature was 
awakened, and he'd laugh at the "Whistling 
Coon" and join in the whistling chorus. But 
when the singer repeated the words, "He 
whistled when his wife was dead," Robert 
would indignantly exclaim, "That fellow's no 
friend of mine." 

Last summer was our last one at Nestle- 
wood. They were great days for us. It seems 
to me now as if some premonition of it made 
my friend do more than usual to make the 
weeks particularly memorable. He was so 
eager to clear the undergrowth completely 
from a new lot I had added to the place, and 
to trim low hanging limbs on the old lot, "be- 
cause," he said, "we may not have another 
opportunity." 



58 ROBERT GARRY 

I had purchased several patriotic airs for 
my "Victor" which he and I greatly enjoyed. 
These, and two or three band selections with 
drum, would awaken memories of the Civil 
War, in which he and I had part. The "Battle 
Hymn of the Republic" was his favorite 
among these records, and he played it so often 
that it almost wearied me. He would stand 
before the horn and look into it intently as if 
he expected to see the singer's face as the tears 
rolled down his own. As the words of that last 
verse were being sung, his soul responded, his 
frame shook with emotion, and he became joy- 
ously agitated as Werrenrath so distinctly 
enunciated with his finely cultivated baritone 
voice the words, 

"In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the 
sea, 
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and 

me; 
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make 
men free, 

While God is marching on." 

We talked more or less about the prospect 
of our rendering together some service in the 
present awful conflict. The Young Men's 
Christian Association War Work would afford 
favorable opportunity, since we were too old 
for active service in the ranks. He said, "Of 



TOGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD 59 

course you can't go with your physical in- 
firmity, but I never felt better in my life. I'd 
love to be among the boys and win a lot of 
them for our Lord." I filled out and signed 
a questionnaire sent me by the Committee in 
New York concerning my friend. 

On the morning of Friday, October 19, 1917, 
we closed the house, put up the bars at the 
road and bade farewell to Nestlewood. He 
stayed with me in my home in Newton 
through Sunday. In the afternoon, with my 
daughter's family, we motored about forty 
miles, through their hospitality, and return- 
ing took lunch at their home. He and I spent 
considerable time in prayer in my study that 
evening until ten o'clock, when he left for his 
home via New York City, where he wanted to 
make inquiry about his chance to work among 
the soldiers. 



Chapter VII 
LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING 

The world's appraisement of a man is most 
likely to be based on the size of his bank ac- 
count, the bonds and stocks he holds, the 
amount of his real estate free from all encum- 
brances, the number of clubs to which he be- 
longs. 

"To talk of fortune in terms only of the 
money market is simply to show our limita- 
tions." God's appraisement of a man is in 
the quality of his character. This constitutes 
true wealth, and alone passes current at the 
bank of Heaven. A man is worth just what 
he is. Character is molded by the divine touch, 
and this is secured through faith in, and com- 
panionship with, God's only begotten Son. 

Kobert Garry was rich in the love and com- 
panionship of God and has entered into his 
reward. Could he have chosen a place from 
which to be called from the activities in which 
he had spent the years of his Christian life, 
it would have been the place where he had 
ample opportunity to recruit men for the 
Kingdom of God. 

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LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING 61 

Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C, gave 
him this opportunity, which he most heartily 
embraced and improved to the best of his 
ability. 

Concerning rest, he disregarded the counsel 
of his friends, as well as the monitor within 
his own heart. I doubt not but that he was 
spurred on in these last days by the words 
of our Lord, who, when His parents found 
Him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of 
the teachers, both hearing them, and asking 
them questions," said to his parents, "Wist 
ye not that I must be about my Father's busi- 
ness?" He had often said to me, "I want to 
wear out rather than rust out," and this he 
literally did until compelled to enter the hos- 
pital. His last letter to me, which was writ- 
ten from Camp Wadsworth, under date of 
January 3rd, is indicative of his suffering and 
of the uncomplaining spirit which kept him 
brave to the last. 

The end of his faithful ministry on earth 
came in the early morning of January 18th, 
when he was summoned from among the boys 
he loved so dearly to be with the Lord, for 
whose second advent he had so faithfully 
watched. 

A telegram received from his beloved wife 
was followed by one from our mutual friend, 



62 ROBERT GARRY 

A. H. Whitford, in New York City, which 
read: 

"Garry received his 'abundant entrance 5 when he 
fell asleep this morning at Spartanburg. His son 
arrived last night." 

Later, Mr. Whitford wrote me : 

"When I wired you that Eobert had an 'abundant 
entrance' I had in mind that the joy bells were ring- 
ing because of his arrival in glory, for no saint ever 
felt more at home on arrival — no saint probably bet- 
ter understood the language. What a Kingdom 
linguist he was ! He began life in Blue fighting for 
his country and ended life in Khaki fighting for all 
that was best in helping our fighting men." 

Mrs. Whitford had written me two days be- 
fore Robert went from us, saying : 

"Have you heard that Mr. Garry is in Spartanburg 
working with the Army Y. M. C. A. ? He has caught a 
very heavy cold and we fear pneumonia has developed. 
He is in the hospital there having the best of care. 
... He was too old to rough it. He felt quite upset 
at first to think the Y. M. C. A. perhaps would not 
accept him on account of his age; finally they did and 
he went. . . . One thing is sure if he does not recover 
he will fall asleep in the harness. There is no one 
I know of who will receive more stars in their crown 
than our Mr. Garry." 

How prodigally he spent his strength, and 
what a valuable service he rendered in these 
last days may be conceived from the two fol- 
lowing letters; first, from young Corporal 



LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING 63 

Lunard, who was greatly attached to Mr. 
Garry, and who had been much helped by him 
in Bible study. He writes : 

"You ask several questions in regard to the last 
days of our friend which I shall try to answer. I am 
glad to say that the end came without much suffering. 
Of course it was bad enough. He had had a bad cold 
for a long time. One morning, about a week before 
the final, I came, as was my habit, rushing into his 
room only to find him looking poorly and panting 
somewhat. I said, 'What's the matter, Daddy?' (He 
had so endeared himself to the boys that many of 
them called him Daddy.) 'Oh, Carl/ he said, 'how 
I wished last night that you were here, I was so sick, 
and I surely thought that the Lord was going to take 
me away.' But somehow he got better for a couple 
of days. 

My regiment was then quarantined and I could 
not see him in the hospital. A friend of mine met 
me at the guard line every evening to give me the 
news. He remained conscious, or semi-conscious at 
least, to the last, ever interested in the work in camp 
and inquiring about it at every opportunity. Of 
course we expected that the dear man would leave 
us; and I think he, too, was aware of it, but he never 
said anything to anyone in this respect. 

Evenings I would sit in his little room studying 
the Bible under his matchless guidance and we would 
say our prayers together, he in bed and I kneeling 
at its side. Somehow it seemed to me his prayers 
became more magnificent from day to day. He would 
linger a bit as he said, 'Oh, Lord, when we can't do 
anything for you any more, take us away to be with 
you.' My, how he loved the Lord ! Oh, my friend, 
how he loved the holy Cause and all of its saints. 
Surely he was suffering discomforts of many sorts 



64 ROBEKT GARRY 

(though we did our best for him), but he thought 
of Saul of Tarsus — Paul — who was called to suffer; 
and remembering his sufferings he forgot his own. I 
can still see the tears in his dear eyes as we read Acts 
9 : 16, and spurred on he went out among the boys 
to labor in the vineyard; and Oh! the joy in his 
dear eyes when some one accepted our Saviour. 

We used to ask those into his little room and there 
we would pray with and for the new-born soldiers." 

After some personal reflections, the young 
Corporal concludes his letter with the follow- 
ing: 

"I am thankful to God that the beloved man came 
to this camp. They say he is dead, but he lives; 
he lives as he never lived before, with Christ in glory, 
and is it not good to know that we shall meet him 
there?" 

The other letter is from Rev. Paul Moore 
Strayer, Camp Religious Director at Spartan- 
burg. He writes, under date of January 21, 
1918: 

"My dear Sayford: As Religious Work Director I 
am very glad to send you a word with regard to 
Eobert Garry, your friend and ours. 

He spent about one month in one of our Y. M. 
C. A. Units and left an influence which will tell tre- 
mendously in the work of our whole staff, of about 
thirty-five men. Every day he had about 8 to 10 con- 
versions, by which I mean, he got that many men, one 
after the other, into his room and showed them the 
way to a Christian life, prayed with them, and helped 
them to a personal decision. He did the kind of work 
which our Association workers are slow to attempt, 



LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING 65 

because of diffidence and fear they might not be able 
to put it through. 

We had a memorial service this morning at which 
the whole staff was present. We agreed he came to 
his end as he would like to have done if he had had 
the choosing. Never in his life could he have done 
better work. One word seems to sum up his per- 
sonality and that is 'devotion'; he was utterly de- 
voted to his business of winning men for Christ. Of 
course, he had an advantage in his Civil War record 
and in the reverence which a Christian old age always 
commands. But, if we younger men were driven by 
his sheer devotion we could accomplish far more than 
we do. I am confident we have learned a lesson from 
him and that through our staff of stalwart young 
Christian workers he will accomplish more during 
these next six months, far more than he could have 
done himself were he here with us in the body. 'He, 
being dead, yet speaketh/ and he has inspired every 
one of us with something of his passion for the souls 
of men. 

There were times when I regretted that he had been 
sent to us, for I felt he was not physically strong 
enough to endure the hardships entailed by this rigor- 
ous weather. I now feel, however, that he has 
achieved in one brief month more than any noted man 
who might have been sent to this camp. 

We will never cease to thank God for Eobert 
Garry." 

Thus have ceased the labors of my beloved 
friend and fellow-worker. He built himself 
into the lives of thousands of men whom he 
led into the "marvelous light" of the Gospel 
of God's dear Son. It was a fitting capstone 
to the rare life, of which he gave so lavishly, 



66 ROBERT GARRY 

that he might lay it down among the men 
whose souls he coveted for Him who "loved 
us and gave Himself for us." 

He could have well said in the words of an 
author unknown to me, 

"Into the garner of the past 5-6 

My day has gone; 
Its work has all been done, 
Its seed been cast. 

Saviour, supremest, best, 

Beceive my day, 

And hear me when I pray 
In thee to rest. 

So in the quiet of the night 
I lay me down, 
Thy work my noblest crown, 

My chief delight." 

His body was brought to Lockport by his 
son, who reached the camp the night before 
his father "fell asleep." Funeral services 
were held at his home January 22nd, in which 
Rev. J. Webster Bailey, pastor of the First 
Congregational Church, officiated, and Rev. 
W. L. Pettingill, of Wilmington, Delaware, 
assisted. Mr. F. H. Thatcher represented the 
Railroad Y. M. C. A. of Buffalo. Other friends 
were present from distant cities. His body 
was laid away in Glenwood Cemetery, to await 
the morning of the resurrection. 

The Lockport Journal contained an article 



LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING 67 

on his death, in which was the following refer- 
ence to his Y. M. C. A. War Work : 

"With his accustomed ardor and enthusiasm he 
threw every ounce of his vitality into personal work 
among the boys in the training camp." 

The article concludes : 

"Through his efforts hundreds were led to a deeper 
study of the Scriptures and to a personal knowledge 
of Christ. Among his personal friends were some 
of the most earnest and active Christian workers in 
the country. In his own daily life Mr. Garry en- 
deavored to put into practice the teachings. He died 
as he had wished to die, in the service, a9 true a 
patriot and soldier as any man fighting in the 
trenches. He had been through the Civil War and 
knew the hardships of a soldier's life. Surviving him 
are his wife and one son." 

I imagine my friend among those of whom 

it is said in Daniel 12 : 3 : 

"And they that be teachers shall shine as the 
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many 
to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." 

Should he have a monument of stone to 

mark the grave wherein the loved ones laid 

his body, no more appropriate epitaph could 

be carved upon it than the words of Paul : 

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my 
course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid 
up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, 
the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and 
not to me only, but unto all them also that love his 
appearing." 



Chapter VIII 

OTHER TRIBUTES 

The following tributes show the loving re- 
gard others had for their friend and mine; 
and they may appropriately constitute a chap- 
ter in this memorial. Many others could have 
been secured if there had been time to solicit 
them. 

Rev. Charles R. Erdman 

Of Princeton 

"It is a great pleasure to reply to your letter in 
reference to Mr. Eobert Garry. I recall with dis- 
tinctness his visit to the Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary. As he had been a lifelong friend of my father, 
and as I had been with him when he was conducting 
services in Philadelphia among the railroad men, I 
urged him to address the theological students. He 
came to my classroom one morning and gave to the 
seniors a fascinating account of his own life^ particu- 
larly as to his habits of Bible study. The purpose 
of his message, as I had hoped, bore on the need of 
daily devotional Bible study. His address, as was 
always the case, revealed a most accurate and strik- 
ing knowledge of Scripture passages, and the men 
were fascinated by his quaint and sparkling humor, 
as well as by the rapidity of his utterances and the 
evident depth of his spiritual conviction. I am sure 

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that no one who heard him speak will ever forget 
his message. I also recall his addresses to the railroad 
men among whom I have been working for the past 
twenty-three years. His services were not largely 
attended, but produced a very definite stimulus along 
the line of Bible study. 

I am delighted to know that you are engaged in 
preparing a memorial of his life and I shall hope to 
secure copies of the book as soon as it is published." 



Col. Samuel C. Pierce 

Of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, 

Rochester, N. Y. 

"Mr. Garry's service in the Union Army was simi- 
lar to that of thousands of his associates. As a soldier 
in the ranks he did his duty, his whole duty, willingly, 
conscientiously, fully impressed with the righteous- 
ness of the cause in which he was offering, if need 
be, his life. Serious illness terminated his service 
with his comrades before the final victory was won, 1 
but no more zealous, faithful defender of the Union 
ever donned the blue than Private Eobert Garry. 

For the past thirty years I have been the secretary 
of the 3rd New York Cav. Veteran Association. For 
the most of that time Mr. Garry was Chaplain of the 
Association. He was a deeply religious person and 
always impressed me as one who tried faithfully to 
follow the footsteps of the Master and who spent his 
strength in showing others the path. 

I am deeply grieved to learn of his earthly separa- 
tion from the comrades whom he loved, but I look 



1 Within sixty days after his discharge, he recruited a com- 
pany in his native town and served in the 90th New York 
Regiment Volunteer Infantry as First Lieutenant to the close 
of the war. 



70 ROBERT GARRY 

forward to an eternal reunion with him in the happy 
beyond." 

Col. H. P. Pond 
Of The Rochester Democrat Chronicle 

"I was a Captain in the 3rd New York Cavalry of 
which Garry was a member also. I was taken from 
that regiment and promoted to Colonel in another 
and of course lost sight of the members of the former. 
Since the war I have been intimately acquainted with 
Mr. Garry and learned to prize his friendship very 
highly. His death was a shock to me as he had been 
in my office only a little while before I heard of it." 

Being very popular with boys, it is alto- 
gether fitting that the following letter from 
one of them should be inserted here : 

"Dear Uncle Sam — 

I was very glad to have your friend, Mr. Garry, 
visit us at the farm. I enjoyed hearing him tell 
stories of the war and play the harmonica. He gave 
me one. 

I never heard a man who could repeat so many 
Bible verses. 

We had a little meeting Sunday evening led by him. 
Fay, our man, enjoyed hearing him. Mother said it 
did him lots of good. She said he never liked reli- 
gion before. 

Mr. Garry is a good sport, too, although he is so 
old. We had a game of ball, not baseball, there were 
two bases and two players on each side. The pitcher 
threw the ball over the base, the batter would hit it 
and then they changed bases. If the batter did not 
hit the ball the catcher would pitch it back, and so on. 

I was umpire. I had a shingle and a pen knife 



OTHER TRIBUTES 71 

and would scratch every point on the shingle. The 
score was ten to ten. Chase said it wasn't, but I 
was right because Mr. Garry said so. 

We went for a walk one afternoon. Mr. Garry went 
right up the rocks like a boy. 

He showed me how to mark my Bible in red ink 
and left us some verses, Heb. 6 : 10 and John 13 : 35. 
Yours truly, 

Kenneth E. Kepner." 

A friend writing concerning his death, says : 

"We shall all meet again, surely, surely. So why do 
we weep our hearts out because one of us has gone on 
a little ahead ? I had some troubles I wanted to tell 
him, but I am glad I did not. They would only have 
depressed his sympathetic heart. He had a passion 
for souls. I never knew his like. Sowing by all 
waters and the harvest will be glorious !" 

Mr. Homer Black 

For Many Years General Secretary of the 

Harrisburg, Penn., Y. M. C. A. 

"I have known Robert Garry for more than twenty 
years and used him as a Bible teacher again and 
again during my secretaryship in the Harrisburg 
Y. M. C. A. I knew him well and loved him much 
indeed. He was one of the most lovable men that I 
ever met, as well as one of the most humble. His 
supreme desire was to win men to Christ through 
the use of the Word, and then teach them how to be- 
come better acquainted with Him in using the Bible. 
He was a gifted man in this line, and his gifts were 
renewed day by day by the Holy Spirit. The church 
will deeply feel his loss, while men all over the land 



72 ROBERT GARRY 

who were led to Christ by him or edified because 
of his ministry will always rejoice that they were 
brought into contact with Eobert Garry, God's man, 
in God's place for God ; s pleasure. Personally he will 
always be in my memory." 

Rev. William L. Pettingill 

Dean of the Philadelphia School of the Bible 

"Eobert Garry was no small factor in determining 
the course of my own life and it is probably due in 
part to his faithful testimony as a teacher of the 
Word of God that I myself was led into the same 
ministry. I was less than twenty years old when I 
came into contact with him in the old Y. M. C. A. 
rooms on East Main Street Bridge in Bochester, N. Y. 
I have known and loved him all these years and I 
do thank God upon every remembrance of him." 

Pres. John A. Davis 

Of the Practical Bible Training School, Bible 

School Park, N. Y. 

"Too high tribute to the revered memory of Eobert 
Garry cannot be written. He was so close to our 
Father that to know him was to become better ac- 
quainted with God. 

At our large Summer Bible Conferences at Bible 
School Park, also his various times of visitations and 
teachings at our school, he has again and again con- 
ducted the work without the use of his Bible, only 
as he held it in his hand, so thoroughly did he know 
the Word. Better than all of that, he never failed 
to be a channel of blessing. Whenever he appeared 
on the campus, a bevy of students surrounded him. 

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Charles T. Kilborne 
Of Wall Street, New York 

"My acquaintance with Kobert was through you at 
the first. The names of Rev. George C. Needham, 
Rev. James W. Cooper, and Sayford and Garry 
grouped themselves together as I recall those early 
days. After he came out for the Christian life his 
development was the most rapid and symmetrical I 
have ever seen. His pastor, Rev. Mr. Cooper, said 
to me, 'He is a man of one Book, the Bible, and he 
feeds upon it to his great personal enrichment and 
growth/ His loving reverence for the Bible was most 
marked. He spoke of it as 'the Word' in a tone and 
manner which cannot be forgotten by those who heard 
him. To him it was the supreme authority, the high- 
est court in all questions of religion. It had led him 
out into the new life; it had constantly and fully 
met his needs as they unfolded; it had never failed 
him in any time of need; it was increasingly full, 
rich, and satisfying; therefore it had vindicated it- 
self. 

His devotion to Christ as the Son of God, his per- 
sonal Saviour and Redeemer, found its expression in 
the words 'He loved me and gave Himself for me/ 
and Tiis own self bare our sins in his own body on 
the tree.' Following his realization of salvation 
through Christ as a substitute, came that of the Elder 
Brother, filling him with a sense of overwhelming 
condescension and honor. His response to these suc- 
cessive experiences might have been expressed in the 
language of the hymn, 

*Love so amazing, so Divine, 
Demands my soul, my life, my all/ 

His eagerness to share with others what he had 



74 ROBERT GARRY 

found was most constant and his unceasing activities 
were prompted by his loyal gratitude to Christ and 
his Christ-like love for his fellows. There was not a 
trace of 'legality* in his service, but the joy of a 
redeemed soul conscious of its redemption. 'Free 
from the law, happy condition* and Tm the child 
of a King* were hymns expressive of his attitude. He 
could have reverently used the words of the Psalmist, 
'I delight to do thy will, my God/ 

He told me of his connection before his conversion 
with a fraternity which required that he spend from 
one to two evenings a week for some time at the 
Chaplain's house learning the unwritten work, and 
said that this Christian minister, knowing he was an 
ungodly man, never spoke a word to him about Christ, 
and added, 'If he had led me to Him at that time, 
just think of ten years more of service I might have 
had for Him/ 

His ability and success as a teacher of the Bible 
were due largely to his unshakable confidence in it 
as the Word of God, and also his patience and gentle- 
ness. No opposition could excite him to irritation or 
anger, but when it seemed to be caused by wilfulness 
or a dishonest attitude, he was grieved and distressed 
for the other person. 

While he was grateful for words of appreciation 
and encouragement, he was also entirely independent 
of them. The smile of approval from his Saviour 
was his supreme satisfaction. 

I have a short list of men who have influenced me 
strongly and helpfully in my Christian life, and 
Eobert Garry's name was placed there long ago, and 
there are few others that stir such tender feelings as 
his/' 

A letter written by the late George C. Need- 
ham, in 1897, comes under the observation of 



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the author, who takes from it the following 
extract : 

"How glad I am to know that you are with my 
princely brother Bob. Ah, me, but he is A-l. A wad 
of theology, a bed of spices, a bundle of myrrh. He 
is none of the modern willowy and waxy high-flyers 
who pose as evangelists when the sun shines, or lovely 
maidens flatter. When God called Kobert, Satan had 
a shock, and swore by his black throne to have re- 
venge. But see, the slim greyhound of our King, 
keeps on chasing the cubs of the pit back to their 
lair. Beelzebub would swap a legion of his German- 
ized liigher critics' for one Bob Garry." 

Mrs. C. E. White 
Supt. West Side Gospel Mission, New York 

City 

"We loved Mr. Garry, and he was loved by our 
young people especially. I remember one day seeing 
him in a group of unsaved people with about a dozen 
children in the group and the elders sitting interest- 
edly by, he the while telling a war tale and between 
times having those youngsters recite a Bible text, 
'Thou God seest me/ It was interesting, for the 
group was so unusual, and he 'had them alP and they 
were getting a lot of gospel truth seemingly without 
knowing it, that is, they would not have listened at 
all but for the tact with which he presented it. 

One day when on the farm with us he gave an evi- 
dence of the humor he possessed. A party, myself 
and husband included, were going for a day's outing 
to Lake Mohonk. We urged his joining us, but he 
stayed at home and picked pears all day, picking 
more than either hired man who picked side by side 
with him and ridiculed the idea of a 'city man and 



76 ROBERT GARRY 

a preacher 5 being able to really do anything worth 
while. At night they were tired out and ready to 
respect our preacher friend, who had made them do 
the hardest day's work they had done in a long while 
and had beaten them out at that. He enjoyed this 
experience immensely. 

One night while with us there in the country, we 
had started to the village to attend a meeting which 
we had arranged for Mr. Garry to address. Meeting 
and greeting a neighbor, a godless man though a 
genial fellow, Robert sat down on the stone wall and 
'preached Christ' to him, urging immediate accept- 
ance of the Saviour. 

He was never too tired and it was never too late 
for him to talk it out with any inquiring soul. Often 
it was the midnight hour when he would have finished 
making the way clear to some seeking soul in our 
midst. 

We shall never cease to thank God for the influ- 
ence of the precious life of our friend, Eobert Garry, 
on our own lives as well as on the lives of our people." 

The Bible Scholar contained the following 
from the pen of Rev. W. J. Erdman : 

"I am one of the many who feel a great personal 
loss in the departure of dear Robert Garry to be with 
Christ, whom he served so faithfully many years and 
for whose return in glory he ardently looked. 

Somehow I cannot dissociate Eobert Garry from 
the word of God. It was ever in his heart and on 
his lips, and as a book — the Book to him, carried 
under his very arm. 

We all loved him; he was so simple-minded, so 
humble, so generous — he had the true, warm, cheer- 
ful Irish heart; but withal, who was more shrewd 
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and excite interest in the Scriptures and the way 
of Salvation when speaking to sinners, whether in 
private or in public ? 

And none were nearer and dearer to him for whose 
salvation he prayed than the adherents of 'the old 
church' in which he was born, and which he left 
when his eyes were opened to see what the Word of 
God taught touching the way of salvation. 

The men in the Holly Works of Lockport, N. Y., 
where he worked for years, and the farming com- 
munities around the city, could bear witness to his 
ceaseless interest in their salvation, and to his in- 
genious methods to arrest and keep their attention. 

And many fellow-workers of past years and who 
are now with the Lord probably never knew of the 
list of names fastened to the machine he tended in 
the shops, for whom his prayers and thanksgivings 
went up daily to God. 

He died in a soldiers 5 camp in the South ; he had 
been himself a soldier in the Civil War; he loved 
and understood soldiers, and truly he was a 'good 
soldier of Christ Jesus/ Though not educated in the 
schools, none contended more earnestly, humbly, and 
intelligently for the faith 'once for all delivered to 
the saints/ 

Many, indeed, will thank God now and in the 
Glory for the life and ministry of this humble servant 
of God." 

And now, Father, grant that the author, 
and all those who read this memorial, may 
emulate the example of Robert Garry, whose 
devotion, and enthusiasm, and fidelity, and 
faith, and deep spirituality kept him in the 
"inner circle" of our Lord's disciples. 



APPENDIX 

SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS FOR ROMAN 
CATHOLICS 

Prepared by their friend, Eobert Garry, 
Lockport, N. Y. 

Please get a Bible and read all the texts referred to 
in this little messenger 

Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will 
draw all men unto me." John 12: 32. 

1. We Should All Read and Study the Bible 

John 5: 39. Search the Scriptures. Not other books. 

Matt. 22: 29. Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures. 

II Tim. 3: 16. It is all profitable. 

Rev. 1:3. A blessing on those that read it 

Deut. 11: 18, 19. Should teach our children the Bible. 

Acts 17: 11. The Bereans commended for searching 

the Scriptures to see if their preachers preached the 

truth of the blessed Gospel. 
John 17: 14. Jesus gave the word only. 
Luke 24: 44-47. Jesus taught out of the Old Testament. 

2. Bible Commandments Only, to be Kept 

Rev. 22: 18, 19. We must not add to or take from God's 

word. 
I John 3: 22, 23. The Two Commandments. 
I Tim. 4: 1-5. To forbid Meats is an error. 
Matt. 26: 27. All were to drink of the Cup, and not 

the Priest for the people. 
Mark 14: 23. They all drank of it (the Cup), as Jesus 

commanded. John 14: 15, 21. 
James 5: 14, 15. Praying for the sick and anointing 

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them with oil, was to prepare them to live consecrated 

lives and not to die. 
I Cor. 14: 19. Paul teaches us to use a known tongue. 

Not the Latin Tongue for English-speaking people. 
Isa. 8: 20. The word of God should be our standard in 

everything. 

3. Mary, a Blessed Woman, But Like Others, 
Needed a Saviour 

Luke 1: 46, 47. Mary confesses Jesus her Saviour. 
Matt. 2: 2. The Son, The King, and not the mother, 

worshipped. The expression worshipped Him, is 

found 13 times in Matt, alone. 
Matt. 2: 11, 13, 14, 20, 21. The child always mentioned 

before the Mother; do not reverse it. 
Acts 1: 14. The last mention of Mary is in a prayer 

meeting, and she not even the leader. 
I Tim. 2: 5. Only One Mediator between God and men. 

The Man, Christ Jesus. 
I John 2: 1. As to sins, we have an Advocate with the 

Father, and one only. Mary, therefore, is not needed. 

4. Peter No Better Than Many Other Men 

Luke 5: 8. Peter said to Jesus, "7 am a sinful man." 
Acts 3: 12. Peter did not trust his own power or holi- 
ness. 
Acts 10: 24-26. Peter said, "I am but a man." 
Acts 9: 32-35. Peter said, "Jesus maketh whole," not 

"I make whole." 
Acts 10: 36. Peter said, "Peace by Jesus Christ." 
Acts 4: 12. Peter said no hope or help aside from Jesus. 
Gal. 2: 11-14. Paul blamed Peter for acting wrongly* 
and this after Peter had been an apostle about 25 years. 

5. The Bible Does Not Teach that Peter Was 
Ever in Eome 

I. Epistle written to Romans, A. D. 58 to 60. 

In Romans, Chap. 16, Paul salutes 26 or more per- 
sons by name. Peter not mentioned among them. 

II. Paul writes from Rome his Epistles, Eph., Phil., and 

Col., and names brethren who were with him, but 
Peter was not one of them. 

III. Paul writes, II Tim. from Rome, the last letter he 

wrote just before his death, and says, Luke only 



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is with me. II Tim. 4: 9-12. Not one word about 

Peter. 

6. As to the Marriage of Priests 

Luke 1: 5, 13. Zacharias, a Priest, a married man, and 
yet pleased God. 

I Cor. 9: 5. Mark 1: 29-31. Peter was married. 

I Tim. 3: 1-4. Bishops, Elders and Deacons were disqual- 
ified if not married. 

Heb. 13: 4. Paul says marriage is honorable in all. 

I Tim. 4 : 1-3. Paul says it is a departure from the faith 
to forbid marriage. 

7. As to Confession to a Priest 

Mark 2: 7. God only can forgive Sins. 
Heb. 7: 27. Priests needed forgiveness themselves. 
Psalm 32: 5, 7. David confessed to God, not to a Priest. 
Ezra 10: 10-12. Ezra, a Priest, taught confession to God, 

and not to himself, (a Priest). 
Dan. 9: 4, 5. Daniel said, Confess to God. 
Acts 8: 20-22. Peter told the Sorcerer to Confess to God 

and not to himself or Mary, or to any saint. 

I Peter 2: 5, 9. Peter says all believers are priests. 
James 5: 16. James exhorts believers to confess faults 

one to another. Our faults are sins. 

8. Christ's Atoning Death and Merits the 
Only Ground of Peace and Pardon 

Isa. 53 : 5, 6. Christ took our place on the Cross. 

II Peter 2: 24. He bore our sins. 
Gal. 3: 13. He redeemed us. 

John 19: 30. He finished all atoning work, and made 
all the merit needed for our salvation. 

John 6: 28-29. To believe is doing God's work, in his 
way and sight. Believe occurs 100 times in John's 
Gospel alone, and 251 times in the New Testament. 

9. How To Be Saved 

Rom. 3: 28. Justified without works. 

Rom. 4:5. To him that worketh not, but believeth. 

Eph. 2: 8, 9. Saved by Grace, not by works. 

II Tim. 1: 9. Saved by Jesus, and not by works. 

Rom. 5: 1. Justified by Faith, not by works. 



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Isa. 45: 22. Look to Jesus only for salvation. 

John 3: 14-16. Believe on Jesus alone for everlasting 

life. 
Acts 16: 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou 

shalt be saved. 
Rom. 6: 23. Prov. 14: 12. Man's way ends in death. 
John 14: 6. Jesus said no man cometh unto the Father 

but by Me. 

10. No Prayers for the Dead in the Bible 

Heb. 9: 27. After death, the judgment. No hope beyond. 
Luke 16: 19-31. Abraham could not help the dead, and 

Jesus gave no hope after death. 
Eccl. 9: 10. No salvation after death. 
II Sam. 12: 22, 23. David ceased praying when the 

Child was dead. 
II Cor. 5: 8. Phil. 1: 21-23. The believer in Christ, at 

death goes at once to Christ. 

WHAT WE ARE AND RECEIVE THROUGH 

JESUS 

John 3: 16-17. Life. Salvation. 

John 20: 31. How we get it. I John 5: 11-13. 

Rom. 6: 23. Eternal life. 

Rom. 5: 9. Saved from wrath to come. John 3: 36. 

Eph. 1: 7. Redemption. Rom. 3: 23-25. 

Rom. 5: 1. Peace. Col. 1: 20. 

Acts 10: 42, 43. Remission. Isa. 50: 7, 8. 

Acts 13: 38, 39. Forgiveness of sins. I John 1: 7-10. 

Phil. 4: 7. We are kept in peace. Isa. 26: 3. 

Gal. 4: 7. An heir of God. 

Phil. 4: 13. Can do all things. Luke 10: 17. John 15: 5. 

Rom. 1: 8. Must thank God. 

I Cor. 15: 57. We get the victory. 
Rom. 8: 37. Are more than conquerors. 

Eph. 2: 18. Access to the Father. Eph. 1:1, 5, 9. 

II Cor. 8: 9. We are made rich. Luke 9: 58. Foxes. 
Acts 4: 2. Will come forth from grave. John 11: 25, 26. 
John 1: 7. Must believe through Jesus. 

THE INSPIRATION OP THE SCRIPTURE 

II Tim. 3: 16, 17. II Pet. 1: 21. Rom. 15: 4. I Cor. 
10: 11. 



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The Law Inspired 

Exodus 4: 10-12. John 5: 39, 45-47. Mark 7: 9-13. Luke 

16 1 29-31 
Luke 24: 25-27, 44. Acts 24: 14. Acts 3: 22, 23. Acts 

26: 22-23. 
Acts 28: 22, 23. Heb. 10: 28. Exodus 20: 1. Isa. 8: 20. 

John 17: 8, 14. 

The Psalms Inspired 

II Sam. 23: 1, 2. Acts 1: 16. Psalm 41: 9. John 13: 18. 
Psalm 32: 1, 2. Psalm 2: 1, 2. Psalm 2: 7. Psalm 110: 1. 
Rom. 4: 6-8. Acts 4: 23-26. Acts 13: 32, 33. Mark 
12: 35-37. Heb. 1: 5. 

The Prophets Inspired 

Jer. 1: 6-9. Luke 1: 68-70. Acts 3: 19-23. Acts 24: 14. 
Acts 26: 22, 23. Acts 28: 22 , 23, 25, 26. Heb. 1: 1. 
Luke 24: 25-27, 44. Micah 5: 2. Jonah 1: 17. Psalm 

22: 16. 
Matt. 2: 1-6. Matt. 12: 39, 40. Isa. 59: 20, 21. I Kings 

22: 14. 

The New Testament Writers Inspired 

Acts 2: 4. Gal. 1: 1, 8-20. John 14: 16. John 16: 12, 13. 
I Cor. 14: 37. Matt. 10: 16-20, 40. I Cor. 2: 9-14. 

I Thess. 4: 15. Luke 10: 16. I Thess. 2: 13. 

II Pet. 3: 1, 2, 14-16. I Pet. 1: 1-12. Eph. 3: 1-5. I Cor. 
9: 1, 2. 

WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? 

Mark 16: 16. He is a believer. 

John 8: 31, 32. He is a disciple. 

Matt. 5: 13-16. He is a light. 

Acts 8: 21. Heart is right with God. 

II Chron. 6: 14-17. Does not mix with the world. I John 

2: 15. James 4: 4. 
Eph. 4: 31, 32. Has no bitterness. John 13: 34, 35. 

I Cor. 9: 24-27. Overcomes self. 
John 15: 14, 15. A true friend. 

II Tim. 2:3. A good soldier of the Lord. 
Rom. 1: 7. Called to be a saint. 

I John 3: 13-16. He does not hate a brother. 
Psalm 101: 3. He controls the eye. Psalm 119: 37. 
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I Thess. 1:9. He serves God, 

I Thess, 1: 10. He waits for His Son. 
Phil. 4: 6, 7. Much alone in prayer. 
Matt. 12: 36. Is careful in speaking. 

II Pet. 3: 11. Much engaged in holy conversation. 
Phil. 3: 10-14. Goes forward. Tell my people. 

EIGHT STEPS DOWN IN BACKSLIDING 

1. Neglect of secret prayer. Acts 2: 42. Col. 4: 2. 

2. Disregard for the Bible. Pro v. 28: 9. John 15: 7. 

3. Forsaking the means of grace. Heb. 10: 25. 

4. Worldly-mindedness. II Tim. 4: 9-11. I John 2: 15-17. 

5. Levity in conversation. Eph. 5: 4. II Pet. 3: 9-11. 

6. Dwelling on the faults of others. Matt. 7: 1-5. 

7. Having a quarrelsome spirit. Isa. 29: 21. I Cor. 3: 3. 

8. Readiness to take offense. Prov. 14: 17. Prov. 18: 19. 

THEEE ENEMIES AND HOW CONQUERED 

1. The world. I John 5: 1. 

2. The flesh. Gal. 2: 16. 

3. The devil. James 4: 7. 

4. The Lord knoweth how to deliver. II Pet. 2: 9. 

5. God sustains in temptation. I Cor. 10: 13. 

IN ORDER TO HAVE OUR PRAYERS 
ANSWERED 

We must ask in the name of Jesus. John 14: 13, 14. 

We must be abiding in Him. John 15: 7. 

We must be keeping His commandments. I John 3: 22, 

23. 
We must be giving thanks at same time. Col. 4: 2. 
We must seek spiritual things first. Matt. 6: 33. 
We must pray for all the saints at same time. Eph. 

6: 18. 
We must be intelligent as to God's mind. Jude 20. 

Eph. 6: 18. 
We must not have hard feelings toward any one. Mark 

11: 24-26. 
We must not babble. Matt. 6: 7. 
We must not ask for fleshly desires. James 4: 3. 
We must not doubt God will keep His word. Mark 

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We must be careful for nothing. Phil. 4: 6. 

We must be prayerful for everything. Phil. 4: 6. 

We must be thankful for anything. Phil. 4: 6. 



The following Eeadings are the result of our last 
Bible study, three months before my friend went to 
be with our risen Lord : 



THE BIBLE CONCERNING JESUS 

The Bible is authoritative: 
Deut. 6: 6, 7. II Tim. 3: 16. II Pet. 1: 21. John 
5: 39. 
The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy: 

Rev. 19: 10. Luke 24: 27. 1 Pet. 1: 10, 11. 
Prophecy is the Word of God: 
II Pet. 1: 21. "For the prophecy came not in old time 
by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as 
they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 
Moses — Exodus 4: 10-12. 
David— II Sam. 23: 1, 2. 
Jeremiah — Jer. 1: 6-9. 
The Old Testament contains much of Prophecy and most 

of it refers to Christ. 
The New Testament contains fully 300 quotations from 

Prophecy. 
The Old Testament points to Jesus as the Redeemer. 

Isa. 7: 14. Zech. 13: 1. Mai. 4: 2. 
The New Testament reveals the prophesied Redeemer. 

John 1: 29-34. Rev. 13: 8. 
Redemption through Jesus foretold in the Old Testament. 

Gen. 3: 15. Exodus 12: 13. Isa. 53: 1-5. 
Redemption fulfilled in the New Testament. 
John 3: 16-17. I John 4: 14. I Cor. 15: 3. I Pet. 
1: 18-21. I Pet. 2: 24. 
This authority is supreme; therefore we need no other. 
Isa. 8: 20. "To the law and to the testimony: if they 
speak not according to this word, it is because there 
is no light in them." 
Luke 16: 29. John 5: 39, 46. Acts 10: 43. 



86 APPENDIX 

WHO IS THIS JESUS? 

His name and character are discovered on most of the 
pages of the Bible: 
Isa. 7: 14. "Therefore the Lord Himself shall give 
you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear 
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." 
Matt. 1: 23. Luke 1: 30-33. 
Is this one born of the virgin Mary more than man? 
Isa. 9: 6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son 
is given: and the government shall be upon his 
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, 
The Prince of Peace." 
Thomas recognized him as God. John 20: 28. 
Elisabeth recognized him as God. Luke 1: 43. 
John recognized him as God. John 1: 1-3, 14. Heb. 
1: 1-8. 
The testimony of Jesus Himself: 
John 8:58 compare with Exodus 3:14. 
John 10: 30. John 17: 5. 
Proof of His claim: 

John 2: 18-22. John 10:17, 18. 
In the light of the above, and other Scriptures, what 
should be our attitude toward Him? 
Heb. 10: 19-25. 



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